Tagaytay City I have spent a lot of time over the meal breaks talking to my brother and sister organizers in this part of the world about the problem of organizer accountability, partly to make sure I haven’t worn my welcome by creating a controversy and partly to explain the problem clearly across four different …
Category: Organizer Training
Regions Slum Network
Tagaytay City In the first day of meetings of LOCOA, the Leaders, Organizers and Community Organizations of Asia, we opened with introductions of organizers from Indonesia, Burma/Myanmar, Thailand, and of course our friends from Korea, and many of the organizations from the Philippines, that I first met here two years ago. The challenges faced by …
Community Organizing, Cooptation, and Conflict
Manila I had two fascinating meetings in Manila before leaving to meet with various community organizations from Eastern Asia who were assembling in Tagaytay City, more than an hour away. The first was with Mary Racelis, who continues as a research scientist at Ateneo de Manila University, where she is a retired …