I was invited to represent Pioneers of Change to the Community Commons
Conference [check out
http://www.undp.org/equatorinitiative/secondary/events/CommunityCommons/CommunityCommons.htm]
hosted by the U.N in partnership with Fordham University. i thought i'd been
to enough of these UN type events and was ready to meet up with yet another
group of people well dressed and articulate on development challenges who
will complain about the system--i was wrong (and i HATE being wrong... but
this time, am happy to be wrong!)

there are about 10 kenyans here who don't speak english and are walking
around in traditional masai outfits. it's a sight. indigenous people are
given prominance and speaking english isn't a pre-req for participation.

the sessions are rather boring for me.. the people rather inspiring!

i keep thinking of the SMT Conference (http://sweetmother.org/?q=conference)
next spring... man, do we have work to do! more later!
~the dumi

--