Nairobi I spent some time with the labor folks, who were fairly well organized and much better represented than usual at these events. No small reason may have been the clear leadership of the activities in the ‘Decent Work’ tent by the French CCT delegates and several of the global union groups. They were kicking …
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Cool Breezes, Lower Numbers, and Nakumatt
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 …
Housing versus Development?
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 …