Chiang Mai Walking early in the morning along the moats surrounding the old city with the monks and hookers both sharing curb space in the city, it is somewhat overwhelming to think of piecing together all of this for others. The triteness of a new world with internet hookups, Starbucks, and the ubiquitous 7-11 stores …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Shrunken Labor
Bangkok We started the Organizers’ Forum meeting with our old friend, Rudy Porter, director of the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center for Thailand and this area of Asia. Brother Porter had been a godsend years ago when we were in Jakarta, so we had been delighted to find him posted in Bangkok now. Unfortunately, his report on …
Fake Rush, Beck Demo’s and Boycott Betsy’s
Ottawa Going from city to city in California last week and now wrapped in the good spirited soul of Canada, it was all I could do in my brief 30 hours in New Orleans to keep up with the wildness of the city and the hate-eration of these times. One thing that had perplexed me …