Moscow Many of us were perhaps a little the worst for wear, but Kirill Buketov, an organizer for the International Union of Food Workers (IUF) had also flown in the previous night from Seoul, so no one was likely to notice. Kirill had begun his career on the shop floor in 1989 and was …
Month: September 2007
On the Western Front
Paris It was not part of the plan, but it seems I’m spending the day in Paris or whatever suburb the Charles DeGaulle International Airport might call home, having flown overnight from Atlanta, landed at 10:30 in the morning this time and now delayed so that I won’t leave here, if lucky, until 6:15 …
Foresight
Atlanta Flipping through pages in The Economist I passed by an advertisement that caught my eye for a not-for-profit in the UK based in either London or Manchester. The positions were paying a hearty 55-80,000 pounds and that is serious money, my friends, in these days of the declining dollar. Anyway, the group …