Jakarta 35 days of Exile Malaysian Air flies into Kuala Lumpur International Airport across low rolling hills dotted with palm trees. These are not ornamental palms, but production palms valued for their oil. The hills look dryer than one expected in this area of Asia. Hitting the runway the airport from a distance looks big, but …
Category: International
Rita
Jakarta 35 days of Exile Maybe there is no going home? Someone with a working phone, please put a call into Noah and get the teams together, because there seems to be no end to the rising waters around us. Preliminary reports from Rita seem to have knocked down the Local 100 sign in front of …
Dinner with Alonzo
Phnom Penh 34 days of Exile Alonzo Suson is the Cambodia country director for the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center. A veteran of student and political organizing back to the Marcos days in the Philippines, he spend a long career as an organizer with several SEIU locals, most recently Local 49 in Portland, as well as the Western …