Athens Reading the reams of material prepared by Barbara Bowen, the Organizers’ Forum coordinator, and book after book to prepare to lead our delegation of twenty from the Organizers’ Forum in Turkey, one is reminded of aberrations of global policy that are so extreme that one can not imagine what in the world “the powers …
Month: September 2006
Industrial Tourism
Athens It would be hard to imagine a city with more experience in industrial tourism than Athens. I’m en route to the 5th International Dialogue of the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) being held this year in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey, and stopping in Athens changing planes on the way. The signs of the 2004 Olympics are …
A Foundation Helping Build a Movement?
Atlanta I have heard the rap several times, but each time I still have to listen hard to make sure I am hearing it right. When Luz Vega-Marquis, President of the Marguerite Casey Foundation in Seattle talks about the mission of their foundation being to support low income people building a movement of change, it …