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Yaa is struggling to keep a reliable Wi-Fi signal from Ghana, but Mohammad logs in on time from Kuwait. Anna had to relocate to a café in Austria to get connected. Johnpeter was hoping to call in, too. But he is in a rural part of Tanzania today, and an internet connection is nowhere to be found. The group Skype call has gotten off to a bumpy start. But no one ever said that building a global human rights movement would be easy.
Finally, Yaa and Mohammad link up with Apoorva from India, Anna from Austria and Karyn from the US. The call’s agenda is all about activism, but as the conversation winds down, the host, Elizabeth Pfiester in the UK, pivots to a personal farewell: “I hope everyone is having a smooth blo...