http://www.peoplesorganizing.org/

The International School for Bottom-up Organizing(ISBO) trains Revolutionary Organizers, creates and supports Radical grassroots projects across the Americas and builds powerful relationships of solidarity. From a rural Social Action Research Centre and Palenque’s in Colombia, to the poor Black community of the Lower Ninth Ward in post-Katrina New Orleans and rural communities in the hills of Jamaica; ISBO is organizing and seeking out Radical folk passionate and deeply commited to creating a new world from the Bottom Up!

A founding statement by the ISBO puts it thus: “Ours is an international struggle that must be led by the poorest and darkest, especially women. We all need the same freedom and equality; we all have the same oppressors, worldwide. Our movement will work toward an internationalist, egalitarian world. We foresee a world in which the genius and creativity of humanity is unleashed, in which all humans share and share alike, whether in starvation or in plenty: in which we are free to love and truly take care of one another.”

Nueva Generacion and ISBO are connected via mutual members and comrades, Javier Sanchez and Maria De La Pava, who have returned to Colombia to set up ‘CAIS Maloka’ – a Social Action Research Centre in the mountains near Cali.