In 1985, Mkhuseli “Khusta” Jack organized a consumer boycott here in the city of Port Elizabeth, which helped end apartheid.
In 2000, Oscar Olivera was the spokesperson for a popular resistance movement that stopped the privatization of water in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
In 2013, they met face to face and shared their stories of strategic organizing with the scholars and professors of the School of Authentic Journalism.
Two lands, two histories. One story of strategic organizing.
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Alan Straton
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Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth.
Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
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