Helsinki I woke up to a drizzle with fall in full force and Helsinki wrapped in dark and damp and large yellowed leaves everywhere. Walking the couple of kilometers to my first meeting gave me a sense of “downtown” in the city, and I finally figured out that I had not been running …
Month: October 2007
Russian Notes
Helsinki With apologies and the request for forbearance from all of my other readers I would like to once again honor my father’s usual request for other details and place notes on what is different or unique about Russia as it struck me personally on my visit. So by nature of his usual …
Dangerous Differences
Helsinki Particularly in St. Petersburg and most dramatically when Maria Kazankova was speaking to us, presenters to the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) delegation acknowledged that intolerance and targeting around immigrants and race were still significant social issues. Lawrence Benito, one of our delegation and an organizer for the Illinois Coalition on Immigrant and …