Dar es Salaam: It had been a long day in the city. I had run to the Indian Ocean at dawn, so that I could say that in one year I had run on both sides of that body of water with Mumbai, India on the east and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on the east. Even …
Category: International
The Anti-Privatization Forum
Johannesburg: Imagine how difficult this is to get right – we are in a foreign country, everyone uses a triple-grip power handshake of sorts, the South African Communist Party is in a tri-part alliance with the ruling party and labor, yet they have embraced neo-liberalism and the Washington consensus including privatization and the whole package, and …
Squatting to Pretoria
Pretoria: We met the leaders with the Landless Peoples’ Movement alongside their highly articulate, highly political researchers with the Land Reform Association, an NGO that was partnered with them. Our timing had been fortunate, the LPM were having a multi-day leadership retreat to make their plan for the next quarter at the same time we happened …