-Researched (a.k.a stalked using the internet) Guatemalan/Mexican concession owners of multinational corporations.
Results: Holy crap! There is no way we can possibly hope to influence these people! They own everything! And are absurdly powerful!
-Tried to make a drunk guy who stumbled in our office at 10:30 in the morning leave without being rude. SO AWKWARD. Luckily, the rest of the staff are much more used to these things, as the office seems to draw "interesting characters." I wasn't there to witness it, but apparently a slightly off kilter fellow wandered in last week, claiming that he was a novelist, and needed people to give him ideas for book characters.
-Researched major figures at World Association of Community Radio Stations (AMARC) & drafted letters to them, inviting them to participate in an event in Guatemala City in August to push for the legalization of community radio stations there
-Transported documents about an ongoing court case in Panama regarding the displacement of the Ngöbe people by a dam to our lawyer at Harvard Law School. By bicycle of course :)
(Two side comments:
1. Harvard Law School is super liberal! At least the professors are. I had not quite expected that. I hadn't seen so many "No human is illegal" stickers in quite some time.
2. There is absolutely no security at Harvard Law School. New plan to find successfulintelligentboyfriend: Do homework at Harvard Law School. )
-Translated(somewhat poorly I'm afraid, but it was English to Spanish) a document about film making for a workshop we're sponsoring in Guatemala. Then I also "translated" the images used in the booklet, changing them from reflecting white urban realities to a rural/indigenous Guatemalan context. This was a lot of fun, since I got to look through all of the amazing and gorgeous photographs in our Flickr account.
-Briefly pitched in Cultural Survival's weekly wiffleball game, continuing to prove that there are many reasons I didn't play sports involving hand eye coordination.
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