Transformation, not Transactions: Preaching Community-Union Linkages to the Choir!

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Victoria    When the topic of the leadership conference is “Building the Links:  Connecting Unions and Community,” and my 90-minute slot has the same title, it’s already a slow pitch to the plate looking for a big swing.  After weeks of singing for my supper on the road with translators in Spanish, Japanese, or Korean, it was …

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Associations in Vietnam

Community Organizing International Organizers Forum

Hanoi The Organizers’ Forum delegation kept hearing about the distinctions between unions, the government, the party, non-profits or NGO’s, and associations, all of which became clearer in our first meeting in Hanoi with the Vietnam Women’s Union, one of the principal associations in the country.  With 20000 staff at different levels and branches at every …

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