Arequipa, Peru: As an organizer, I can not resist asking, everywhere I go around the world, about the economics of social change. What defines membership in a social movement or labor organization? Are there dues? If so, how much do members pay? Regardless of what many might think, other organizers and leaders are always surprised someone …
Category: International
The Comodores
Lima, Peru: Six months before I had been in Lima with Donna Bransford, Director of ACORN International, to help in opening the office of ACORN Peru and install our organizer, Isabel Diaz, and meet with our partner organizations, FEMOCCPAALC, who we call the Comodores, and FENTAP, the federation of water worker unions in Peru. This time …
Nationalism?
Vancouver: Staying at a friend’s condo in the gas town area of Vancouver, I could see the freight containers being craned into place on the docks of the port throughout the night. The steel wheels of trains pushed them down the track and inland from this western port as they came in from the west. I …