Manila While heading for the airport in Manila to begin the endless flight to the next pieces of work in San Francisco, I was witness to the endless dialing calculations of organizers as they confront the deadening and difficult traffic of the city. It may have been before dawn on a Sunday, but there were …

Tagaytay City An organizing culture is a puzzle taking some time to open, and this has certainly been the case of my time with by brother and sister community organizers in Asia in LOCOA. It takes awhile to ask the right questions and step past assumptions to more closely listen to the answers. LOCOA has …

Tagaytay City I have spent a lot of time over the meal breaks talking to my brother and sister organizers in this part of the world about the problem of organizer accountability, partly to make sure I haven’t worn my welcome by creating a controversy and partly to explain the problem clearly across four different …