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Vietnamese Organizers exchanging with the Organizers' Forum of 2010

New York City After a long day of meetings in the big city, I got back to my priceline special in Chinatown on the Bowery to find a curious email from a conservative blogger asking me about the date of posting for the Organizers’ [...]

Craig, Zach, and Ed’s Unique View of Vietnam

Bangkok I hate the Bangkok international airport. It’s an overpriced mall with planes in the parking lot. A cup of coffee can cost $3 to $4 bucks USD, and I’m stuck here for 8 hours on the cheap route from Hanoi to Delhi, so making the best of it. Leaving a new [...]

NGO’s in Vietnam

Hanoi From the outset I’ll be clear that we met some fine non-profits or NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in Vietnam during our visit there. RENEW and the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial led by Chuch Searcy virtually brought tears to some of the Organizers’ Forum delegation as he told of the challenges of clearing ordinance and the [...]

Associations in Vietnam

Hanoi The Organizers’ Forum delegation kept hearing about the distinctions between unions, the government, the party, non-profits or NGO’s, and associations, all of which became clearer in our first meeting in Hanoi with the Vietnam Women’s Union, one of the principal associations in the country. With 20000 staff at different levels and branches [...]

Unions and Labor Protections in Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City One of the real thrills of the Organizers’ Forum dialogue experience is being part of a diverse and talented group of organizers coming together for the first time in a foreign setting and trying to each on their own and all collectively get their arms around the illusive uniqueness of other [...]

Challenging the Commons

Delhi Upgraded to business class from Bangkok to Delhi, which was a rare and wonderful treat, but finding that my bag had gone missing on the exchange took a bit of the thrill off it. There seems to be a lot of a bit of this and a bit of that going on these days.

Waiting [...]

Tubing on the Moei River

Chiang Mai One of the more interesting, and surprising, things we found ourselves watching with interest was the porous border crossing on the Moei River between Thailand and Burma. The bridge was lightly trafficked above us as we saw an occasional foreign couple or straggler walking over, but beneath the bridge in the fast moving [...]

Organizing in Exile

Chiang Mai The Organizers’ Forum delegation had travelled from Bangkok to Chaing Mai and almost immediately sat down with organizers from three different groups focused on support and assistance to Burmese refugees and displaced citizens. The organizers had been involved in the work from several to twenty years. In some cases the support was humanitarian, [...]

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