Chiang Rai
I write this from the northern Thai city of Chiang Rai. It’s a remote region famous for the Golden Triangle, a once thriving opium trade, and the beautiful Doi Chang mountains. This is a rural…
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Singapore
My last post focused on my time in the Klong Toey Slum of Bangkok and the challenges of human trafficking and poverty. How to handle such complex problems? Well, one way is to do what…
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Bangkok
“Poverty is the trafficker,” said my daughter. With those words all of us on The SOLD Project Activist Vision Trip saw the many threads of human trafficking weave together into an abhorrent evil of economic…
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Myanmar
Myanmar is a fascinating country and my short visit was illuminating. There is a mix of 19th and 20th Century forces at work — oxen pulling carts, holdover totalitarian governments from the Cold War era,…
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TakePart Live
Just had to share this. My daughter Rachel was a featured interview on the television show “Take Part Live”. Here’s the video: If you subscribe to this blog via email or RSS and cannot view…
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Shopping to Make a Difference
So the crazy shopping season is about to begin — or maybe it already has for some of you. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday and all the rest just around the corner, I wanted…
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Goble Properties Giving Fund
We’re doing something new at Goble Properties this year. It should be fun to see how this works because it could be a dynamic way to engage people this holiday season. Below is the email…
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Firsts – Five Years
Take the time to watch this video. Amazing story, amazing people, amazingly important. Proud to have a small part in it, and proud of the people who put it together. If you subscribe to this…