Pearl River      Over the last 25 years, the Organizers’ Forum has organized 23 delegations to visit even more countries that that number with the only break being for two years during the pandemic.  We have only visited one country, Brazil, twice, on the eve of Lula da Silva’s and the Workers Party’s first victory, …

            New Orleans      From a distance, Spain seems like just another big European country with a history and language of its own, but still one that fits as a piece in the rest of the puzzle.  On the ground in Barcelona and Bilbao, the whole notion of autonomous regions seems almost a marvel that …

            Mondragon     The Organizers’ Forum delegation took the 915 bus from the center of Bilbao to Mondragon riding through an intermittent rain and mist draping the mountains.  Upon arriving, we were shuttled in cabs to the top of the mountain where the Mondragon cooperatives maintained their training center in a remodeled house in a beautiful …