Asuncion Our first successful contacts in Asuncion were with the Fundacion Paraguaya. After weeks of sending emails without answer and puzzling over our problems, Martin Burt, the Executive Director of the Fundacion immediately answered my email, and almost as quickly we were having a lengthy Skype call, and he was offering his help, including the …
Category: International
From Heaven to Hell and Back Again for Unions in New Zealand
Auckland Interviewing Mat Danaher of E tu, the largest private sector union in New Zealand with 50,000 members, on Wade’s World, I got a much better idea of the organizing climate and context confronting unions – and workers – in New Zealand. It’s quite a story of going from almost the best circumstances unions might …
Citizen Diplomats, Citizen Reporters
New Orleans For the second year, we have interns visiting New Orleans from Eastern Europe in order to learn community organizing methodology. Last year we had a young woman from Sofia, Bulgaria. This year we will be hosting one woman from Albania and another woman from Bulgaria who is an anthropology professor and activist …