Helsinki In one of our last meetings in St. Petersburg we met with a brilliant young lawyer who had made a specialty of the new non-profit laws as the director of the Center for Education and Research Programs. Maria Kazankova had a doctorate in law and was making it her mission with precision …
Category: Labor Organizing
Organizing Activists II–Alex
St. Petersburg From almost the first conversations we had upon entering Russia, it seemed that everyone, whether labor or lawyer or civil society, would mention something about the excitement all over the progressive communities in the country at the strikes at the Ford production plant in St. Petersburg. They would never say it quite …
Big and Small Russian Labor
St. Petersburg The delegation from the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) shifted venue from Moscow to St. Petersburg, though I am still sorting through all of the meetings and information from those first days. We also seem to have moved in time from the combination of “soviet block” and historic construction around the Kremlin and …