San Francisco        Our colleague and friend, Na Hyowoo  of Asian Bridge returned the other day from a trip to Mongolia as part of his work where he had been observing the progress towards democracy.  He shared the following report about the recent riot in that country against corruption and other issues, which gives a …

New Orleans        I finally stumbled on the 2005 movie, Constant Gardener, set in Africa, including extensive footage of the slums of Kibera and watched it front to back.  The movie was directed by the gritty Brazilian director, Fernando Meirelles, famed for City of God, filmed in the favelas of Rio de Janiero.  Constant Gardener …

New Orleans        Several years ago the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) took a delegation of community and labor organizers to Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, for a series of fascinating meetings with community based organizations and unions.  We were there at the 10th anniversary of liberation and were fascinated by the three-legged stool that formed …