Boston I landed at close to 2 AM in the morning at Logan Airport. It was close to 3 AM before the head found the pillow. It was small comfort to find “my story” on the front page of the Boston Globe where radar problems had knocked the flight schedules — like mine — on …
Category: Labor Organizing
Women in Indonesia
Chicago Indonesia is a Muslim country. Some estimates say 85% of the population shares the faith. There was not a morning I did not wake up to the call for prayers at 4:15 in the morning. Despite the secular cast of the country, many have asked about the role of women and the level of …
The Search for the Informal Workers Organizing Program
Kuala Lumpur 42 days of exile It took going out of country with the Organizers’ Forum to figure out that we were in a global revolution in employment with the informal sector crowding out the formal sector or the workforce. Gradually, we came to understand that part of what we were organizing in the US were …