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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Acatenango and the Majesty of Mountains
Acatenango and the Majesty of Mountains Antigua Vacations are a time for family, recharging, and getting ready for the year to come. Every once in a while they are also a time for learning something as well or at least being reminded of things that are perhaps too easy to forget. There are …
Christmas in Antigua
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 …