Zanzibar

Community Organizing International

            Stonetown, Zanzibar               The electricity keeps flickering on and off every few minutes forcing me to decide exactly how much I care for the news on either CNN, BBC or Al Jazceera.  The weather is hot and humid with the kind of haze associated in my mind with days looking out on the water of …

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Agrarianism vs. Globalism

International

February 7, 2009             Dar es Salaam             The devastation being wrecked by the economic meltdown is probably a more global phenomenon than globalism itself and certainly intensified by the interconnectedness of all economic lives in these days and times.  A line running at the bottom of the screen on the BBC news reported that a …

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Immigrant Hijack

International

February 4, 2009                 New Orleans                      For some people the notion of an immigrant family working in the United States without perfect paperwork is just “tough stuff” and just desserts, but most Americans understand that there is a fundamentally and fully broken system that has created a class of employers desperate for the labor and …

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