Yangon Chin is a somewhat inaccessible state occupied largely by ethnic Chin’s along the western and northern mountainous areas of Myanmar strategically located along the Indian and Chinese borders of the country. The state is geographically large, but its population is hardly 500,000, and perhaps significantly less given the number of Chin who have fled, …
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Cyber-Communication Crackdowns Continue
Lafayette The notion that whole governments including ostensibly liberal democracies like the United Kingdom would simply throw all pretense about freedom of speech out the window when it comes to social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, and various instant messaging services proves that all of the freedoms we take for granted are just that, taken …
Real Jobs for Real People in the Informal Economy
New Orleans I argued yesterday that as important as “new” industries and mass employers are in finding real employment for millions, that the days when headlines of General Motors hiring 4000 workers are going to be few and far between. What we need is localized informal workshops, training, production, marketing, and sales that can provide …
Power of Deep Engagement: Familia Anclada, Wards, & Committees
New Orleans According to a fascinating article by Damien Cave in the New York Times the families that have hunkered down and stayed in the Ciudad Juarez warzone in Mexico directly across the Rio from El Paso in Texas are frequently headed by generations of women and their children, welded to jobs and livelihood, they …
Egypt
Toronto If there was ever a more dramatic case study of the political impact of protest on or off the grid of internet, telecommunications, and social networking, the world saw it on the streets of Egypt yesterday. It was as if there were a perfect laboratory experiment on what would happen if the only avenues …