Bangkok The Organizers’ Forum delegation forged out to see various slums along the river and canal courses of Bangkok and the dense acres near the city center, so we were prepared by the time we sat down for several hours with leaders and organizers of the Four Regions Slums Network as they came back to …
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Shrunken Labor
Bangkok We started the Organizers’ Forum meeting with our old friend, Rudy Porter, director of the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center for Thailand and this area of Asia. Brother Porter had been a godsend years ago when we were in Jakarta, so we had been delighted to find him posted in Bangkok now. Unfortunately, his report on …
No Cigarettes on the Street
Bangkok One of my colleagues with the Organizers’ Forum kept bending down and picking up his cigarette butt every time we happened to be out and about doing errands to get ready for the first formal session of the Forum. I finally asked what was up. Seems the King and government imposed a new regulation …