Boston        On Friday night the panel at the EPIIC International Symposium convened to discuss the issues of particularly vulnerable global cities and New Orleans was highlighted as a worse case example of the impact and consequence of vulnerability.  It was encouraging to find that after more than three years, there is still deep interest …

    Washington        In the push to win comprehensive immigration reform the exhilaration of the election has been tempered by concerns that this issue was being pushed to the back of the queue because of the economy and the need to get other mattes also handled quickly like health care and housing measures and worker …

Melbourne        We spent the morning meeting with and listening to the executive meeting of the Victoria Trades Hall or the central labor council of all of the unions in the state of Victoria.  The whole experience was deeply moving in many ways, not so much because of the meeting, but the tremendous and principled …