Utrecht, Netherlands     Jan van Doggenaaar, the director of a 55-person team for the ICCO Alliance that focuses on the program area of “basic needs” was very generous with his time, because it took a while to describe both what ICCO was and how it has totally re-invented itself along new lines in January of …

New York We went to Orange County and back and forth to Southern California in a tag team off and on for the last year seeing if we could get the sub-prime industry to see the risks and “do right.” We got to know a lot of the people that are in the news these …

Istanbul       In Instanbul we spent many hours with first the General Secretary of Tekgida-Is, and then the General Organizing Secretary, and finally with the actual organizers and even some stewards of this union of industrial food, beverage, and tobacco workers.  Scratching like chickens in the yard, we were finally getting somewhere closer to a real …