Ankara Yildirim Koc, a veteran of 30 years in the labor movement, 3 years in a Turkish prison after the ’80 coup for his trouble, and currently an economist, writer, and teacher as well, opened our first Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) session with a thorough view of the history of labor over the last 100 years. His …
Category: International
Giving Coke Fits
Athens Another email alert came through from the India Resource Center, which has been at the vanguard of fighting Coca Cola especially in India. I also regularly get emails from something called “KillerCoke,” which the company also must just love! The campaign had a breakthrough several weeks ago when they were virtually banned by two …
What Were They Thinking?
Athens Reading the reams of material prepared by Barbara Bowen, the Organizers’ Forum coordinator, and book after book to prepare to lead our delegation of twenty from the Organizers’ Forum in Turkey, one is reminded of aberrations of global policy that are so extreme that one can not imagine what in the world “the powers …