San Pedro Sula One of the adventures of organizing and traveling in other countries, especially in other languages, is that no matter how much you plan and discuss the agenda – always be ready for surprises. Our long day in San Pedro Sula proved all of that in spades. We began the day visiting a …
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Fighting for Water and Land in Honduras
San Pedro Sula The calendar surprised me. I hadn’t really visited our offices, organizers, and members in Honduras for almost four years. I had met our organizers other places, Mexico, Ecuador, and Houston, but had not actually been on the ground with them recently to measure the progress being made by the local organizations at …
Building New Organizations in the Birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution
Birmingham Depending on whether you are looking east or west, Birmingham is either the Chicago of the United Kingdom or Chicago is the Birmingham of the United States. Carrying the analogy too far, Manchester is Cleveland to Birmingham’s Chicago. I better stop. The key point is that these are amazing, bustling cities with deep, historical …