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Jill O'Reilly gives ACORN Ottawa report to attentive organizers Mexico City A highlight of the year is always getting the reports of ACORN International affiliates around the world and hearing about the progress and the challenges members, leaders, and organizers are facing. The obstacles are legion, but so are some of the surprises. Vinod Shetty from [...] ** 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 [...] 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 [...] Indian Protesters burning FDI poster at demonstration New Orleans President Obama continues to sightsee and glad hand his way across India on his sales trip for US business interests, soft shoeing around the issue of jobs being outsourced to India, even as he argues to the US press that by meeting his sales quota [...] New Orleans President Obama has now billed his visit to India and points Asian as a “trade mission,” something usually done by governors, so it’s a head scratcher here and there. He visited Gandhi’s house in Mumbai, which is a nice thing to do, and probably a quiet place for a salesman and his [...] ACORN Canada members Preeti and Pascal with Wade. Vancouver At Douglas College in New Westminster, hard by Vancouver, more than 30 ACORN Canada members and friends, gathered to watch the Dharavi documentary, WASTE, on ACORN International’s organizing of waste pickers, and to dig deep in their pockets to support our organizing in Latin America, [...] |
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