https://podcasts.groong.org/tags/union-organizer/Recent content in Union Organizer on Groong PodcastHugoen-usTue, 12 May 2026 02:33:02 +0000https://podcasts.groong.org/330-sopo-japaridze-ussr-common-home-history-georgian-foreign-agent-bill-protests-armenia-georgia-relations/Sat, 18 May 2024 02:00:00 +0400https://podcasts.groong.org/330-sopo-japaridze-ussr-common-home-history-georgian-foreign-agent-bill-protests-armenia-georgia-relations/<h2 id="introduction-to-sopo">Introduction To Sopo</h2> <p><strong>Question:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Sopo, since it’s your first time on Groong, please tell us more about yourself?</li> </ul> <p>You describe yourself as an “old school socialist” and a “unionist”. That is a fascinating profession, as well as self-description.</p> <p><strong>Questions:</strong></p> <ul> <li>How did you arrive at such a unique position?</li> <li>How difficult is it to organize labor in Georgia? Can you give us some examples?</li> <li>Do you collaborate with counterparts in Armenia or the region for instance? Is there any benefit in sharing knowledge and experience?</li> </ul> <h2 id="ussr-a-common-home-and-history">USSR: A Common Home and History</h2> <p>Czech author Milan Kundera, in his <strong><em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being,</em></strong> has an interesting sentence which I like to quote frequently. He says: &ldquo;The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.&rdquo;</p>https://podcasts.groong.org/watch/330-sopo-japaridze-ussr-common-home-history-georgian-foreign-agent-bill-protests-armenia-georgia-relations/Sat, 18 May 2024 02:00:00 +0400https://podcasts.groong.org/watch/330-sopo-japaridze-ussr-common-home-history-georgian-foreign-agent-bill-protests-armenia-georgia-relations/<h2 id="episode-summary">Episode Summary</h2> <p>USSR: A common Home &amp; History. Georgia’s Foreign Agent Bill. Armenia-Georgian Relations.</p> <div class="watch-notes"> <a class="watch-notes-button" href="https://podcasts.groong.org/330/"> Go to Episode Notes </a> </div>