Updates on &amp;#8216;SAWTY:&nbsp;صوت شباب تونس&amp;#8217; or &amp;#8216;My Voice: Voice of Tunisian Youth&amp;#8217;
To recap:
This is an organization (pending legal certification) that some friends and I founded nearly 2 weeks ago, with the vision of uniting Tunisian youth under the banner of transparency and government accountability. SAWTY is a nonpartisan advocacy organization that will be the platform for understanding Tunisian politics, parties, and persons. We hope that by publishing need-to-know information about Tunisian politics, organizing speaker events, panel discussions, debates, and civic education workshops and seminars, that Tunisian youth will be best equipped to cast responsible &amp;amp; educated votes in the upcoming elections (whenever they are). Our goal is much broader than that, though: we hope to instill in ourselves and in our peers the drive to remain active in civil society, and to show our country and the world that we will never again allow our country to be overtaken by despotic autocrats.
With SAWTY, I am Chief Communications Officer and Co-Founder, and as such have met with representatives of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) the President and Cabinet of el-Nahdha (the Renaissance) Political Party, Tunisian civil society activists and respected journalists, et al. Making important contacts and benefitting from their knowledge, expertise, and i