New Orleans From Jump Street let me concede that I find the current coup and counterrevolution in Egypt confusing and contradictory. The hope of the Arab Spring has eroded over the last two years. The Organizer’s Forum visited Cairo then, and as exhilarating as many of the meetings were, we could already feel the people’s …
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How Can Kamal Abbas be Sentenced to Jail Now in Egypt?
New Orleans When the Organizers’ Forum visited Cairo in the fall of 2011 one of the most impressive people we met was Kamal Abbas, the long time director of the Center for Trade Union and Worker Services (CTUWS), based in Cairo. We visited him in his offices and were intrigued and inspired by the accounts of …
Hard Choices, Right Process: Deal Making in Paterno, Cairo, & New Orleans
Paterno After days of discussion sometimes heated and dramatic, the leadership of the La Citta civic movement in Paterno had come to the crossroads where they had to make decisions. The right-leaning party had chosen a candidate for mayor and attracted some support from the center as well. This meant that if La Citta could come …