The leadership of Solidarity Uganda grows increasingly frustrated by idle statements unaccompanied by action substantial enough to compromise Dictator Yoweri Museveni’s unbridled 35-year grip on power. This is not our first rodeo. We have been here before. Ambassadors, civil society organizations, and others continue to call upon the dictatorship to open democratic political space for […]
Author Archive: Solidarity Uganda
Registration for ‘Club Masspower’ – Sustaining Social Movements Report Launch
Fellow organizers, activists, and members and supporters of progressive movements across the world: I hereby interrupt your quarantine blues to invite you to something exciting! At the end of 2019, I took two months to intensively research the wisdom of organizers and the tools they use to build the power of their movements, coalitions, […]
THE LUGANDA VERSION OF GENE SHARP’S “FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY”
Download the Luganda Version of From Dictatorship to Democracy Here Hello Comrades, A few months ago with permission from the Albert Einstein Institution, we embarked on translating Gene Sharp’s “From Dictatorship to Democracy” to Luganda one of Uganda’s local languages. We are excited to inform you that we concluded the translation and it is now available […]
Phil Wilmot’s Farewell Message as he steps aside as Solidarity Uganda’s Executive Director
Friends and comrades, The past decade building power with you has been the privilege of a lifetime. I remember the subversive conversations we had as university students, long before systematic political change even felt possible. With the years to follow — in the forests of Amuru, the mountains of Benet, the hills of Tooro, the […]
Urbanization destroys solidarity and the social fabric that holds traitors to account
This city belongs to its residents and not landowners. We will continue to support libraries and meeting and learning spaces that are made accessible to the poor. They are a beacon of socialist power amidst an increasingly exclusive and exploitative capitalist city management team bent on privatizing all spaces for the accumulation of wealth of […]