Jakarta I was first struck by the hunger for information, news, papers, anything about modern community organizing when I visited the Philippines and then later during my two trips to Korea. Fledgling organizers in other countries are simply desperate for tips or anything that updates their work and gives them a better grip on …
Category: International
Community Based Worker Organizing
Jakarta Wednesday was a national holiday marking the end of Ramadan. Some people forget that this secular country of 250 million is actually the largest Muslim country in the world, and because of that and in my view a thousand other reasons could represent a real opportunity when there is a different person in …
Macini Sombla
Makassar Wardah, her partner, Wilvadi Budiharga, Professor Tamrin Tomagola, and “Awi” Nawir, the senior organizer on Wardah’s staff for all of the work in the 4 or 5 offices in cities throughout Sulawesi, and I went to Macini Sombla, one of the major communities where UPC and KPRM expected to turnout their …