USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: NGOs/CSOs are becoming increasingly political - judging by the backlash from governments

Thanks Dan, you/we may wish to compare it with the draft notes on Manuel Castells' recent public lecture found in this link: http://civic.mit.edu/blog/schock/manuel-castells-the-space-of-autonomy-cyberspace-and-urban-space-in-networked-social, he made compelling connections.

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From: Dastan Kweka <kwekad@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Wanazuoni@yahoogroups.com" <Wanazuoni@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 4:32 AM
Subject: [Wanazuoni] NGOs/CSOs are becoming increasingly political - judging by the backlash from governments

 

``The lion's share of the most significant political upheavals of the past 15 years have come about as the result of assertive citizen activism, starting in Slovakia and Serbia in the late 1990s, continuing through Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Lebanon in the early 2000s, and most recently in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and elsewhere in the Arab world.`` http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/the-civil-society-flashpoint-why-the-global-crackdown-what-can-be-done-about-it/

The link to the full research text can also be found on the fp2p blog. 

I remember reading Shivji`s Silences in the NGOs discourse a few years ago (available on pambazuka and just by googling. So, is this the beginning of the desired transformation?

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