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 …
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No Cigarettes on the Street
Bangkok One of my colleagues with the Organizers’ Forum kept bending down and picking up his cigarette butt every time we happened to be out and about doing errands to get ready for the first formal session of the Forum. I finally asked what was up. Seems the King and government imposed a new regulation …
Squatting Along the Canals
Bangkok Picking up a copy of the Bangkok Post on the plane as we came from Tokyo to Bangkok, it was a good omen to see an article on the opinion page by one of friends, Jeff Wong, who has been working as an advisor with the Four Slums Network we will be visiting on …