Oslo Norway was a short course. Three meetings in less than 24 hours: NORAD, the Norwegian Development organization with a view of the water, LO, the giant labor federation with its huge building overlooking the former bazaar, and finally Norwegian Church Aid, a huge NGO hidden discretely around the corner from the heart of …
Category: Labor Organizing
Gerald Durrell and Progressive Globalization
Helsinki When our forest fighter, Yveyenia, (www.ecmo.ru) explained to our Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) delegation where she had gotten her organizational inspiration and sense of tactics, she unhesitatingly said she followed the advice of British nature advocate Gerald Durrell to “take action every day!” Huh? Gerald who? Could you repeat that more slowly, was …
Confusion on the Docks
Helsinki Kalingrad is a Russian seaport on the Baltic farther south than St. Petersburg. Of all of the people and stories the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) delegation heard, this was frankly the hardest for me to sort out easily in the normal ways that I would do so. The narrative of the story is …