Monthly Archives: June 2015

Getting Ready 17 Went to a meet-up of the Ho Chi Minh-San Francisco Sister City Committee in San Francisco this afternoon. It was held from 5:30 to 8:30 pm in the bar of a boutique hotel, The Rex, at 562 Sutter Street, a couple of blocks up via cable car from Union Square. The hostContinue reading “Getting Ready 17”

Getting Ready 16 Reading about youth employment yesterday was an eye-opener. I know that when I land, I will be overwhelmed with what I see. I am trying to prepare my expectations so that I will be able to make sense of what I’m looking at quickly. Or at least get started in the rightContinue reading “Getting Ready 16”

Getting Ready 15 Today’s the longest day in the year. June 21. Starts out chilly and foggy so you want to wear socks and a sweatshirt. By noon the sun is blazing. It’s also Father’s Day. We went to SF and found the Vietnam consulate, on California half a block above Van Ness, where aContinue reading “Getting Ready 15”

Getting Ready 14 It’s time to turn and look at the US: Vietnam as a destination for US tourists, Vietnam as the place where Vietnam vets come from, and the US labor movement, which goes about organizing itself in a way that is very different from Vietnam. When people hear that we are going toContinue reading “Getting Ready 14”

Getting ready 13 I have an appointment for a phone conversation with Angie Ngoc Tran who teaches at CSU Monterey Bay. She emailed me a link this interview, from July 2014. In the interview, she describes a day when young men riding motorbikes, with flags, incited riots at factories in industrial zones, paid workers toContinue reading “Getting Ready 13”

On Jun 4, 2015, at 3:38 PM, Hollis Stewart wrote: Helena, I have started reading your blog and will respond to the observations and questions that you present.  Just below is the address for the blog that Leanna and I published while we were in Vietnam.  Hope you enjoy it as much as we did inContinue reading “Getting Ready (12)”

Getting Ready (11) The conference to which so many representatives of so many nations came was in 1965. Joe points out that many of the countries that sent delegates were countries that were still under colonial control. He also tells me that it would have been illegal to bring this book into the US atContinue reading “Getting Ready (11)”

Getting Ready (10) Four items have come in from my request on the UALE (United Association for Labor Education) listserve for examples of undergraduate statistics, probability and math courses or syllabi. An exercise from Toby Higbie at UCLA about big data where he asks them to visualize the history of the labor movement, one withContinue reading “Getting Ready (10)”