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ECON: Food Food Food!
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Dave Beckwith returns to Poland with the European Community Organizing Network. Wednesday, December 14, 2011. Wowee have we had some great food! Even though I shouldn't eat chocolate, I decided to go for it while in Belgium - and that is some FINE chocolate! A totally OTHER thing from even the best US stuff.be nice to us and you may get a taste when we get home! We won't dwell on the street food - might have been a mistake to choose what we did, but we got caught up in the drama of the Christmas Market&#...
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ECON: All Music!
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Dave Beckwith returns to Poland with the European Community Organizing Network. Monday, December 12, 2011. The first thing we do when contemplating travel is to check for music events - and Brussels has really delivered! For our musical friends, here's a listing with some oohing and aahing! Gruesomely uncomfortable chairs (90 degree backs, low to the ground, small) but the young guy Yoann Tardivel (fast fingers and toes! Monday - today - started with the 12th annual Lundi D'Orgue (Monday of the Organ!
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ECON: January 2010
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Dave Beckwith returns to Poland with the European Community Organizing Network. Friday, January 29, 2010. Last official day at the office; departing Monday evening. The Needmor books have arrived at Chuck Hirt's in Slovakia, along with Joe Szakos books (the excellent We Make Change, which profiles organizers, what we do and why), and it's getting pretty much inevitable. Thinking about what I want to learn from this trip, as well as what I want to teach. The trick here is not to fall back on slogans or id...
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ECON: January 2011
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Dave Beckwith returns to Poland with the European Community Organizing Network. Wednesday, January 26, 2011. It worked - they got more and more serious about making it happen, this time. Who did you connect with? Martyna was clear - all her questions had been answered, she could see that it could be done. "If they can do it in Romania, we can do it here! Then I led them through a tough back-and-forth. What happened the last two times? What can you get out of it? What will make it different this time?
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ECON: Touring Slow and Easy
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Dave Beckwith returns to Poland with the European Community Organizing Network. Monday, December 12, 2011. Touring Slow and Easy. Ah, the days slip by. Some great meals - more below - some very educational museum visits, about 11,674 miles of walking. Just what we'd hoped for! A very energetic and knowledgeable Fernando took six of us in tow - two Italians, a Catalan a cheery little woman (business lawyer! Anyhow, he gave us the history and politics of the place - how the French Burgundies and the Spanis...
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ECON: December 2011
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Dave Beckwith returns to Poland with the European Community Organizing Network. Wednesday, December 21, 2011. Remembering a Giant Man of Faith and Action. Many are thinking this week of Vaclav Havel, playwright, activist, rebel, man-about-town, President and philosopher. The world is poorer for his passing. The ladies came out - Father said it would be ok - and they made news, and the Mayor came over and the neighborhood organized and the plans got changed. Monday, December 19, 2011. So the Work Days tur...
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ECON: February 2010
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Dave Beckwith returns to Poland with the European Community Organizing Network. Thursday, February 18, 2010. Lindsay and our friend Miro at the cafe in Prague. I said at the start of this adventure that I want to learn at least as much as I teach. We’re almost at the end of the work, so I thought I’d take a first cut at what I’ve learned. Here’s what I said at the start:. So here’s what I’ve learned:. Can I make sense to this new group of people? Will it make any difference? And of course, the pig is the...
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ECON: November 2011
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Dave Beckwith returns to Poland with the European Community Organizing Network. Wednesday, November 30, 2011. Here We Go.Again! Getting organized to visit Brussels for R&R.then Banska Bistrica for three intense days of ECON consultation. Watch this space! Picture is an ECON team meetup in Toledo this September. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Congresswoman Kaptur and Kajo Zborzil, ECON Lead Organizer. Getting to Work - Katowice. The Class of 2010, Szczeczin Community Organizing Workshop. Here We Go.Again!
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ECON: First Day - Currency, Crepes and Nietzche
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Dave Beckwith returns to Poland with the European Community Organizing Network. Thursday, December 8, 2011. First Day - Currency, Crepes and Nietzche. Tuesday drive to the airport - thanks Judson! Was enlivened by the sight of TWO bald eagles perching over the swamp by the side of the road - if I were superstitious, this would be a very good omen! The place is wonderful - spacious, modern, with a roof garden that makes me wish we were here in May! We nap - and half a day later, we get up! Dinner at the n...
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ECON: Budapest, Looking Back
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Dave Beckwith returns to Poland with the European Community Organizing Network. Monday, December 19, 2011. Budapest, Looking Back. So the Work Days turned out to be quite full, very little time for blogging. I'll go through in order, but it's Tuesday and Lindsay and I are off to our favorite bookstore/tea house in the old castle district of Budapest to celebrate our 31st anniversary in quiet style! A picture of the food at our lodgings (the Kuria) in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. More toomorrow.
