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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, [...]

Organizers Burden

Bangkok The Organizers’ Forum delegation had two great meetings with organizers and the job before them was stunning and prodigious.  We had the opportunity to meet for several hours with five union organizers working to organize industrial plants along the eastern shore of Thailand.  We also got lucky and our trip coincided with a training [...]

Four Regions Slum Network

Bangkok The Organizers’ Forum delegation forged out to see various slums along the river and canal courses of Bangkok and the dense acres near the city center, so we were prepared by the time we sat down for several hours with leaders and organizers of the Four Regions Slums Network as they came back to [...]