New Orleans It’s hard to find any good news in disasters. The Nepal earthquake has already counted more than 4000 deaths with countless homeless and crises abounding will leave that country in recovery for years, particularly in Katmandu. India and Chinese rescue teams were first on the scene and many are joining, though slowly it …
Category: International
Beat Goes on with Action NC
Charlotte Pat McCoy, the executive director of Action NC, and I visited with a class of students at Charlotte School of Law who were trying to learn the often delicate dance required of partnering with community organizations, offering stories and advice, even if perhaps not helpfully in some cases. More fruitfully, we talked about campaigns …
Yevgenia Chirikova and Other Environmentalists on the Run
New Orleans The Organizers’ Forum has conducted an International Dialogue with community and labor organizers and activists in various movements around the world since 2002. In our first trip to Brazil we almost miraculously stumbled into the wild excitement in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro around the election campaign of Lula de Silva from …