Yangon Having people go around the room and introduce themselves is a common routine, but having people say their names and then the years they were imprisoned is somehow both sobering and immediately inspirational because just those words from former students, lawyers, professors, and regular workers who were jailed for advocating for democracy speaks volumes …
Category: Organizers Forum
Is FDI and Foreign Tourism Already Passing Myanmar?
Yangon The Organizers’ Forum delegation started making its way, bleary eyed but bushy tailed across the world from the US and Canada via Taipei, Doha, Tokyo, and Hong Kong to visit with people and groups getting a sense of the transition of Myanmar (Burma) from a closed country towards more open elections and an opening …
Leaving Bolivia
Lima Cochabamba is a very pleasant city in many ways, but La Paz and El Alto are what’s happening as unique political, social, and cultural environments which are hard to duplicate in the rest of the world. The strategic and tactical power of El Alto over the country, because of its geographical stranglehold and emergence and …