Nairobi Might we worth me offering some notes that give a fuller sense of what we are finding here in Nairobi at edition 7 of the World Social Forum. The WSF specializes in tents, almost as a trademark. Meeting after meeting is marked by the gauze of fabric. In India it was muslin and bamboo. Here it is …
Author: wade
Housing versus Development?
Nairobi I spent much of the first day of the World Social Forum held here in Kenya participating in sessions organized by the Habitat International–Coalition (HI–C). I was even a participant on the panel at the first general session on housing in the afternoon to ever be organized in the 7 WSF events to this date. The …
What $1.2 Trillion Buys
Newark Interesting, and disturbing, piece by Times columnist David Leonhardt the other day that I would like to share. $1.2 Trillion dollars is the cost of the war in Iraq. This breaks down to $200 Billion per year. For the same dollars, Leonhardt points out we could do the following: Universal health care in U.S …