Helsinki Particularly in St. Petersburg and most dramatically when Maria Kazankova was speaking to us, presenters to the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) delegation acknowledged that intolerance and targeting around immigrants and race were still significant social issues. Lawrence Benito, one of our delegation and an organizer for the Illinois Coalition on Immigrant and …
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Gerald Durrell and Progressive Globalization
Helsinki When our forest fighter, Yveyenia, (www.ecmo.ru) explained to our Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) delegation where she had gotten her organizational inspiration and sense of tactics, she unhesitatingly said she followed the advice of British nature advocate Gerald Durrell to “take action every day!” Huh? Gerald who? Could you repeat that more slowly, was …
Confusion on the Docks
Helsinki Kalingrad is a Russian seaport on the Baltic farther south than St. Petersburg. Of all of the people and stories the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) delegation heard, this was frankly the hardest for me to sort out easily in the normal ways that I would do so. The narrative of the story is …