In Ano Liosia, an immigrant-heavy town north of Athens, I visited an assembly that arranges for farmers to sell produce directly to the community, circumventing middlemen and grocery markups — creating, in effect, a farmers' market for the very poor.
On Friday afternoon, Paul W. Bucha, a Westchester County resident, West Point graduate and Vietnam veteran who is the president of the society, visited an assembly of fourth and fifth graders at Dorothy Nolan Elementary School.
In Galatsi, near central Athens, I visited a social assembly based in a soap factory run by the unemployed.
The design of an automobile assembly line came from a Henry Ford associate who had visited a Chicago slaughterhouse (and might have been influenced by an assembly line created by Ransom E. Olds a few years earlier).
Not long after Ray Kroc of McDonald's was inspired by Detroit motor industry assembly-lines, Yoshiaki Shiraishi visited a beer-bottling factory in Osaka.
The design of an automobile assembly line came from a Henry Ford associate who had visited a Chicago slaughterhouse.
"The government and the taxpayers made a terrific investment and it's going to pay off big time," G.M.'s chief executive, Edward E. Whitacre Jr., said in a visit to an assembly plant in Kansas City, Kan.
His style was hands-on in a corporate culture used to deference: before him, top Japanese executives seldom visited assembly lines.
Having visited the St . Louisassembly plant in the mid-1960s, he accepts that production standards at the factory were, at best, expedient or casual.
The political heart of the Rojava project is in the local communal assemblies, in which local people take decisions for themselves about everything that concerns them: healthcare, jobs, pollution... boys riding their bikes too fast around the village, as one woman complained about at an assembly I visited.
The whole point is to give everyone a say in their own government". The political heart of the Rojava project is in the local communal assemblies, in which local people take decisions for themselves about everything that concerns them: healthcare, jobs, pollution... boys riding their bikes too fast around the village, as one woman complained about at an assembly I visited.
