Seoul, South Korea Rev. Kim directs CONET — the Korean Community Organizing Information Network based in Seoul. Fides Bagasao had just arrived from the Philippines to transfer the headquarters of LOCOA — Leaders and Organizers of Community Organization in Asia — to Seoul and co-house with CONET. A merging of the forces and a meeting of the minds in …
Category: Organizer Training
A Hunger for Organizing?
Seoul, South Korea I’m as jaded and cynical as the next professional organizer, maybe more so, but I was impressed at the turnout at the Press Center on nothing more than the fact that some working organizer from the United States a “Wade Rathke” from ACORN — whatever that might be — was speaking on the simple …
Fair Trade Standards in Practice in Jordan
Amman Virtually from the time I landed in this relatively modern and westernized city of 1.5 million people in the high desert of Jordan, I had been hearing from Rick Hall of the AFL-CIO, during his time as part of the Organizers’ Forum delegation (www.organizersforum.org ) and now from his associates with the Solidarity Center …