Cairo The first day is a “shakeout” day for the Organizers’ Forum and with an outstanding delegation of over 20 people from diverse and outstanding organizations in the USA and Canada, just moving about from place to place was a project in the crowds and chaos of Cairo. After an excellent orientation offered by …
Tag: Egypt
Unions Stepping Up in Wisconsin, Egypt, and Around the World
Mexico City This evening I speak at the Workers’ University of Mexico (Universidad Obrera de Mexico) about my book, Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign for Working Families. It will be hard not to make the point about unions, even weakened and beleaguered, and the vital role they are playing around the world in standing up …
Egypt’s Protests and Gene Sharp
San Pedro Sula Newspapers, as the saying goes, write the rough drafts of history. In Egypt is is fascinating to watch the 20-day process of rewriting, revising, and re-framing that is already taking place in papers like the New York Times. The first drafts desperately wanted this to be a Facebook or Twitter revolution…young and …