Mumbai One of the largest development and peoples’ housing fights in the world is located in the heart of Mumbai on 600 acres of what is now astronomically valuable land where more than 80 textile mills were first built by the British more than 150 years ago used to fume and toil. Mill lands were …
Category: International
LOCOA Loose Ends
Manila While heading for the airport in Manila to begin the endless flight to the next pieces of work in San Francisco, I was witness to the endless dialing calculations of organizers as they confront the deadening and difficult traffic of the city. It may have been before dawn on a Sunday, but there were …
Reflections of Older Filipino Organizers
Tagaytay City An organizing culture is a puzzle taking some time to open, and this has certainly been the case of my time with by brother and sister community organizers in Asia in LOCOA. It takes awhile to ask the right questions and step past assumptions to more closely listen to the answers. LOCOA has …