Most groups, including the Kurds, who are the best organized, call for decentralized government, but they are open-minded about which federalist model -- the Swiss? the German?
Members of the #GivingTuesday team were on an organizing call for our social media ambassadors when one woman came on to tell us about her baby, "Fair Trade Tuesday". The marketer in me immediately wanted to shut her down: that's off brand — she invented a new name!
Mutual learning was facilitated by the participation of advocates and research staff in weekly staff meetings, monthly epidemiology and COTC calls, 16 subcommittee meetings and calls, and organizing calls for the biannual meetings.
As the country's oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization, the Sierra Club is very familiar with the power of organized people calling for change.
Mr. Perez also organized demonstrations calling for prosecutions in police brutality cases, including the case of Anthony Baez, a Bronx man who died after being put in a choke hold by a city police officer in 1994.
For the last three weekends the coalition has organized rallies calling for public hearings.
A child of a schoolteacher and city planner from Ohio, she'd gone to Yale, where she majored in African-American studies and helped organize protests calling for university divestment from apartheid South Africa.
Today's march was organized to call for peace in the country and to protest the recent invasions of white-owned farms by black squatters.
More recently, Ms. Brito's younger daughter, Yamila, 13, was sent from her school to take part in one of the large public rallies the government organized to call for Elian's return.
"Bersih" means clean in Malay, and the demonstrations had been organized to call for free and fair upcoming elections, and also a broad range of endemic human rights issues in the country.
