Nairobi I went with six other members of Habitat International–Coalition to see three settlements in Nairobi in the late afternoon of the 3rd day of the World Social Forum. What we saw was disturbing to many of our delegation, yet we were witnessing what were obviously squatting success stories. The first area was on a hillside. The …
Author: wade
Flavor of the Forum
Nairobi The daily publication of the WSF said they had 50,000 registrations, but who knows where they were. Virtually no one walking and talking around the event thought there was half of that and many feared that 10,000 might be the best that were showing at any one time. Money was the issue here, and …
Fair Play Campaign in 2010
Nairobi I spent some time with the labor folks, who were fairly well organized and much better represented than usual at these events. No small reason may have been the clear leadership of the activities in the ‘Decent Work’ tent by the French CCT delegates and several of the global union groups. They were kicking …