Jakarta 36 Days of Exile The one thing you heard over and over again before coming to Jakarta is that the traffic may be the worst in the world. Reading V. S. Naipul’s Among the Believers some years ago the passages about endless hours stuck in traffic in Jakarta stayed with me longer than many of …
Category: Labor Organizing
Sunday in Jakarta
Jakarta 36 days of Exile It’s late September so it’s time for the Organizers’ Forum World Tour (www.organizersforum.org). Five or more years ago, we established the Organizers Forum to give serious and senior community and labor organizers an opportunity to engage critical issues and challenges outside of the normal channels and silos of our work. We …
Dinner with Alonzo
Phnom Penh 34 days of Exile Alonzo Suson is the Cambodia country director for the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center. A veteran of student and political organizing back to the Marcos days in the Philippines, he spend a long career as an organizer with several SEIU locals, most recently Local 49 in Portland, as well as the Western …