New Orleans For the second year, we have interns visiting New Orleans from Eastern Europe in order to learn community organizing methodology. Last year we had a young woman from Sofia, Bulgaria. This year we will be hosting one woman from Albania and another woman from Bulgaria who is an anthropology professor and activist …
Tag: Nicaragua
A Grassroots Report on the Current Protests in Nicaragua
New Orleans Several years ago the Organizers Forum visited Managua and several other cities in Nicaragua to assess the status of the country and its civil society in the years since the revolution. Now the government is undergoing fierce street protests led by students. We received this report forwarded from friends to friends offering a …
Criminalizing Immigration in Modern Society
New Orleans Meeting with Suyapa Amador and Erlyn Perez, ACORN International’s key organizers in Honduras in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa recently in Nicaragua, it became clear that we were making progress in winning more security for our neighborhoods, including several important commitment from the First Lady focusing on jobs as well as protection, but …