Turkish Attacks on Roma

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues International

January 31, 2009             New Orleans               In 2006 when the Organizers’ Forum delegation from the US and Canada visited Ankara and Istanbul in Turkey we spent several hours visiting with an organizer and a community organizing project among the Roma (gypsies) across the Bosporus Straits on the Asian side of Istanbul.  The community was similar …

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Christmas in Antigua

Community Organizing International

Christmas in Antigua             Antigua           They take Christmas very seriously in Guatemala.  Virtually every night we have stumbled into a processional of various shapes and sizes with music, marchers, and a float or nativity scene borne in some fashion traveling Bethlehem.              The marketplaces have been full as the day comes closer.  At noon we …

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