Caracas: A highlight of our visit was going to be our meeting with a number of the board members of the UNT — the National Workers Union. We arrived promptly for our appointment in their offices in the Labor Ministry building. We could hear the loud talk of a meeting in progress when we got there, …
Category: Labor Organizing
Workshops at the World Social Forum
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 …
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 …