Mexico City Time does seem to fly. Looking at the program book over dinner, it did not seem possible that a little over ten years ago in October of 1997, a few of us accepted the invitation of Peter Cervantes-Gautschi to come to San Miguel de Allende in the highlands north of Mexico City and …
Category: International
Blog 852: 300 Million
Bogota We finally all got to talk to each other. Shashi Bhushan and I met with the asian caucus that quickly became the india plus caucus as first one then another jumped in to speak. SEWA, the Self Employed Women’s Association, had an organizer and two leaders present. They claim 31,000 waste-picking members and three …
Border Clash
Bogota The second day of the Congress was better for all of us. We were able to escape the formal declarations and multiple presentations from dignitaries and sponsors, and finally settled into the Organizing Track. For hours we listened and learned intently from case studies given from Cairo, Egypt, our own ACORN-affiliated Harit Recyclers …