Paterno After a long walk to the Palermo harbor and through the Mercato Ballero, I hauled my stuff over to the voting session of the regional assembly of the Sicilian civic movements. Not surprisingly, it ran 2 ½ hours over the expected time. One delegate proposed 25 amending resolutions to the frustration of some of …
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Komen Retreat, Sicilian Shutdown, & Civics at Crossroads
Palermo It was exciting to hear of the Komen retreat before the storm of opposition, web-rage twitter-storm, and plain and simple disgust expressed by women – and men – everywhere for their craven cave-in to Hate Nation and restoration of their funding to Planned Parenthood. The news went across the CNN screen in the …
Huge Organizing Opportunity for Italian Tenants
New Orleans Over the last two years we have been in touch with organizing in Palermo and Catania, the largest cities on the Italian island of Sicily, and I had been looking forward to visiting with them after the Organizers’ Forum dialogue in Cairo later this month. I had hoped our next ACORN International affiliate …