Salvador We were lucky that Sunday is traditionally the day off for household domestic workers around the world. We were scheduled to meet the director and leaders of SINDOMESTICO-BA, the Domestic Workers Union in the Brazilian state of Bahia late in the afternoon in Salvador. The address was eluding us, but we were early. …
Category: Community Organizing
Combining Services with Power and Voice
Heerlen I was in Heerlen Nord, but it was déjà vu. If I closed my eyes, I would have thought I was once again in the Cesar Andreu Iglesias Garden in north Philadelphia a couple of months ago. About the same size, an area for a stage and music, a cooking facility, containers for …
Organizing as Work and Mission
Calgary I first heard about Clement Pettijean, a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, when I got a notice of a dialogue between him and Alex Han, the new editor of In These Times. I know Alex from his time years ago as an organizer for Local 880 SEIU, our old ULU sister organization. …