I hope all is cool with the comrades working to help social mov'ts to maintain their independence and to act for themselves in their own interest. That indeed is a tall one, and your courage is worthy of emulation. I am not the least surprise the way things have turned out considering the resources available to NGOs which they deny social mov'ts of.

The thing with the Ghanaian exprience is that, despite the pre-independence struggles of the masses some how there arose a gap which the NGOs filled and have not relinquinsh their leadership ever since. Even with some of the prominent social mov'ts that you'll find in Ghana, you only have to go into them to realise that it is the NGOs and not the communities that owns leadership. The point is that in Ghana the leadership and authority of NGOs within both the NGO world and that of social mov'ts stands unchallenged.

I have this idea that I am trying to experiment to see how independent social movement can emerge at the level of my community Osu. The idea is to begin with a community newspaper which will raise questions on issues of daily existence in relation to local government and its mandate. Out of these issues such as sanitation, water, fishing concerns etc then the paper will then proceed to mobilise and organise its respondents around these issues, The object of these mobilisations is to check against public sector corruption at the local level but more importantly facilitating to give ordinary people the benefit of their greatest tool; their numbers in the struggle against the previledge class for public resources. Of course we need a CBO that will faciltate all these. The point now is to complete the blue print that will take us there and all the technicalities involved. Comrade I don't know what you think about this idea yet, but for now I will feel good if you will be available to assist with some of the technical details. My special greetings to all the comrades in the resistance mov't.

Yours in the struggle
Leo
Accra