Mainstream Islamists, such as the economy minister, Abdullah Shamia, speak not of imposing Islamic law but of respecting contracts with foreign oil companies, diversifying the economy away from oil dependence, wooing investment, and regulating the labour market to block a new influx of migrant workers seeking passage to Europe.
Across the street, 43-year-old Safe Passage worker Theo Bridges wasn't so much patrolling his beat as pacing it.
Safe Passage worker Theo Bridges stands guard at Halsted Street and Garfield Boulevard in Englewood, one of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods.
On a recent morning on the far South Side, "safe passage" workers, wearing neon vests and clutching cellphones (ready to dial 911 if need be), lined street corners as students filtered in.
But Harold Davis, the director of an agency that hired 14 Safe Passage workers to stand on the blocks near Curtis, said families from both schools had been holding meetings, working out old disputes.
An article on Tuesday about the growing use of machines on upstate New York farms to replace lost migrant workers omitted a passage in some editions at the start of the continuation.
Cristina has organized immigrant youth and workers for the passage of pro-immigrant policies at the local and national level for the past 9 years.
There was nothing like this last year," Jimenez said, noting she will still be escorting her kids to and from school despite the Safe Passage workers.
In the Roseland neighborhood, the station reports half the safe passage workers quit last week alone and that a designated spot at 119th and State went unmanned Tuesday morning.
Safe Passage workers worry that week one is merely the calm before the storm, however, and Chicago Alderman Scott Waguespack pointed out on the first day of school that the program may not be sustainable for more than a few weeks; police and other city workers involved will eventually have to return to their regular posts.
