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Daily Caller: Left-wing organizing kingpin: Tea partiers out-organized Occupy Wall Street

** Below is an article taken from The Daily Caller, a right wing news site & blog of an exclusive “interview” with Wade **

By Michael Volpe

10:56 PM 11/24/2011

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) founder and Service Employees International Union organizer Wade Rathke acknowledged that the [...]

The Ironies and Contradictions of Walmart and China

            New Orleans               The action by the Indian government to modify the standards for foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail to 51% ownership is something that ACORN International and the India FDI Watch Campaign (www.indiafdiwatch.org) that founded and continue to support have long opposed.  We have done so in no small manner because of [...]

Assange is Right about Internet Archives

            New Orleans               The much maligned Julian Assange of Wikileaks on his forced sabbatical in England where he is “to the manor” adopted while awaiting extradition to Sweden to confront the errors of his ways with women, revealed an important insight in an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist that was excerpted in the recent issue [...]

Indian Government Deals Small Businesses a Hard Blow

            New Orleans               For years the India FDI Watch Campaign supported by ACORN International has campaigned to make sure that any modification in foreign direct investment would protect the 20,000,000 small retailers, birani shop keepers, brokers, and others would be done responsibly.  Working to build a large, diverse national coalition, the [...]

Caveat Emptor / Buyers Beware the Fair Trade Mess

New Orleans               Part of the global dispute that ACORN International highlighted in our recently released report, “Unfair Fairtrade” www.acorninternational.org, burst into the business section of the Times in a weird piece of Thanksgiving celebration.  The issue engaged most directly continued to be the rouge retreat of Fair Trade USA and its chief, Paul Rice, from [...]

Egyptian Protests: The Struggle Between Freedom and Power

            New Orleans               Every once in a while the issues become crystal clear even in the fog of the continuing protests in Tahrir Square that are once again constant around the clock with hundreds of thousands contending with the recalcitrant military forces.  Yesterday in noting that the Muslim Brotherhood had started [...]

Thanks to Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s Revolution May Succeed

            New Orleans               Once again Tahrir Square in Cairo stands for dream of freedom, rather than the disappointment of struggle.  Tens of thousands have held the square for days against scores that have died and thousands injured by the military.  Finally, the demands have been clear and consistent and directed at the brazen power play [...]

“They’re Children:” Police Building Occupy Movement Again

New Orleans        Certainly it is presumptuous to compare the Civil Rights Movement with the Occupy Movement, but it takes a while to think of another movement in the USA which has gotten more of a boost from police oppression.  Occupy seems to find Bull Conners-wannabes everywhere, whether in New York City or now on [...]

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