Gustav Watch

Personal Writings

Buenos Aires        As Katrina moved through the Gulf towards New Orleans, I was in a hotel room a mile above sea-level in Denver at a management council meeting that all seemed unreal as the storm hit the city.  Now, I am almost 6000 miles south in another continent, and it is equally unreal.   …

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Communas

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues International Personal Writings

Buenos Aires        Talking last night, we started discussing perhaps the largest effort of ACORN Argentina in Buenos Aires involving community representation on the communas.  This is a little complicated, but essentially the communas are something on the order of large, neighborhood governing councils to allow direct citizen participation.       There used to be …

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