Porto Alegre: The World Social Forum is a hulky, ungainly, and thrilling piece of work. At one level it is a constant frustration where nothing is every where you hope to find it, yet everything is happening both everywhere at once and no where you can find. In 2003 in Porto Alegre the last …
Category: Labor Organizing
Opening the World Social Forum with the MST
Porto Alegre, Brazil: The World Social Forum is difficult to describe. It started here in Brazil and has met here each of its five years except last year when it did evangelical work for social movements and met in Mumbai, India. It is a big, unruly, bunch of folks of every size and description both …
Argentina Changing Again?
Buenos Aires: In Argentina everything is dated before or after the “crisis.” The crisis was the defining economic collapse when the value of the peso went to dirt and all of the bills came due. Banks closed and depositors lost their shirts. Interestingly, the people reacted by organizing and organizing in new and exciting forms. …