Tirana You first feel the tear gas in your eyes, but quickly a small cough hacks away, as you put a handkerchief over your nose and mouth to breathe more easily. Standing back from throng so we could observe clearly, we knew the tear gas was coming even before we felt its effect. A surge …
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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 …
De-escalating Violence
New Orleans Getting more experience in hospital emergency and waiting rooms is on no one’s top ten list, but, trust me, you do the time and this comes with the territory. If you can call it luck, it’s not you personally, though the anger and aggravation when it is family is every bit as bad. People …