Buenos Aires I packed up my computer finally and walked down the hill to the avenue to wait for bus # 93 to Boca. Taking the bus is a fascinating experience in Buenos Aires and a source of constant thinking by city dwellers and regular commuters about tactics and strategy so that you can squeeze …
Category: Personal Writings
Andrea Kydd
Buenos Aires Andrea and I go way back — more than 40 years back. She was working to direct BWAC, the Brooklyn Welfare Action Center, with Rhoda Linton, and I was head organizer of the Massachusetts Welfare Rights Organization. Somehow thanks to the marvelous “people skills” of the founding organizer of MWRO, my long time …
Extreme Inflation
Buenos Aires Last night there were nothing but smiles as people crowded past on the sidewalks with televisions blaring from the cafes. Argentina had solidly beaten Brazil in soccer at the Olympics in Beijing and would now be in the gold medal game against Nigeria at the end of the week. To put a …