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 …
Category: Organizer Training
Asian Community Organizers’ Network
New York City: Organizing is often a matter of drawing the lines as quickly as possible — and as straight and true — as you are able between several points – or people – to bring them all together. Recently, I was cementing just that kind of connection where disjointed and skimpy pieces of information somehow …
A Church in Orange Farm
Johannesburg: The Organizers’ Forum Dialogue on South Africa began right after breakfast as our delegation (crew would seem a better word!) trooped onto a bus to head for Orange Farm, a huge developing township of 800,000 on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Along the highway as we came into the area we could see the innumerable one-room …