Phnom Penh 34 days of Exile Alonzo Suson is the Cambodia country director for the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center. A veteran of student and political organizing back to the Marcos days in the Philippines, he spend a long career as an organizer with several SEIU locals, most recently Local 49 in Portland, as well as the Western …
Category: Personal Writings
Where was the Corps?
Where was the Corps? Phnom Penh 32 days in Exile Many people believe it is harder to sleep when a weather front like a hurricane is coming through. In my case 5000 miles away, it was more like the CNN and BBC World News winds than the force of Hurricane Rita, but nonetheless, it made it …
Black Mold and Mildew
Phnom Penh 32 Days of Exile Now a million people are running from Rita, even while we are still dealing with the gaping wounds and permanent scars of Katrina. At this point more than just the fundamentalists will be thinking that there is something almost Biblical about the pestilences and scourges being delivered upon us. The …