Nairobi There are hardly better days that I have had as an organizer than the ones I have spent looking at the “turf” in a new city to decide, as best one can with four decades of experience, where we should start organizing new chapters. In the past I had fallen in love with the potential …
Category: Community Organizing
Violence or Peace in Nairobi Slums
February 11, 2009 Nairboi In every conversation I have in Nairobi I ask the question forefront on many minds — has the national power sharing in government worked and is there now peace in the communities or could tribal antagonisms that killed more than 1000 in post-election violence little over a year ago recur. These are …
Global Door-to-Door
Dar es Salaam There is no period like a world-wide recession to force home the point that globalism or the expanding benefits of for-profit enterprise is simply not going to solve the problems of the poor. As unemployment grows like a disease and hunger fill new millions every day with hurt, the hopes pinned …