Nairobi            Might we worth me offering some notes that give a fuller sense of what we are finding here in Nairobi at edition 7 of the World Social Forum.  The WSF specializes in tents, almost as a trademark.  Meeting after meeting is marked by the gauze of fabric.  In India it was muslin and bamboo.  Here it is …

Nairobi            I spent much of the first day of the World Social Forum held here in Kenya participating in sessions organized by the Habitat International–Coalition (HI–C).  I was even a participant on the panel at the first general session on housing in the afternoon to ever be organized in the 7 WSF events to this date.  The …

New Orleans               A couple of last, personal notes on our delegation’s recent trip to Japan and China, and then we will get on with 2007, thank you! My favorite memories of this trip are going to be early mornings in Shanghai in the pre–dawn fog and smog and watching the older people at their various exercises and …