Helsinki With apologies and the request for forbearance from all of my other readers I would like to once again honor my father’s usual request for other details and place notes on what is different or unique about Russia as it struck me personally on my visit. So by nature of his usual …
Category: International
Dangerous Differences
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 …
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 …