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 …
Category: International
Industrial Tourism
Athens It would be hard to imagine a city with more experience in industrial tourism than Athens. I’m en route to the 5th International Dialogue of the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) being held this year in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey, and stopping in Athens changing planes on the way. The signs of the 2004 Olympics are …
Red Carding Landlords
Toronto I listened carefully to the ACORN Canada board meeting as the leaders from Vancouver, Toronto, and now Ottawa, reported on the progress in their local chapters and cities. For example, a long campaign to deal with payday lenders that has been the signature effort for ACORN in Canada seems to be finally falling …