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Premonitory Depression Blues

Spending a few days in New Orleans, and liking it a lot. Can’t say I know the place, since we’re mostly hanging around the touristic areas. Didn’t try to connect with any locals before coming, though I did read Billy Sothern’s interesting Katrina and post-hurricane account “Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City“. […]

March 1st, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Book Reviews, General Musings, History, My Writings and Appearances, Nowtopia, Public Space, San Francisco news, Technology?, Travel report, Work and The Economy | Leave a comment

Recapping the World Social Forum

The World Social Forum celebrated its ninth reunion in Belem, Brazil in the Amazonian state of Pará from January 26 to February 1, 2009. A lot of expectations are piled on to this peculiar event. 91,000 delegates registered, a majority from Brazil, and probably a majority well under 35 years old. But there are hundreds […]

February 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: History, Nowtopia, Public Space, Travel report, Work and The Economy | Leave a comment

Trade Unionism: Long Past the Peak

The panel on the proposed Global Labour Charter here at the World Social Forum on January 29 demonstrated in stark terms the historic dead-end of trade unionism. The Charter was cautiously embraced by some, dismissed by others, but in any case, has yet to be written by a broad effort (Peter Waterman, who […]

January 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: History, Travel report, Work and The Economy | One comment
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