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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 [...] Mumbai Luckily, there are a lot of folks out there who are smarter than the average bear and might be able to point out to street organizers like me and our team what is really going on in the weird calculations of many huge businesses. Seems like I’m running into more than my [...] Delhi Last year’s stubbed toes in Delhi over India’s first shot at hosting the Commonwealth Games are still in the news in the wake of continued outrage at the national embarrassment caused by the widespread corruption that revealed shoddy construction and desultory preparations. The headlines were full of charges and counter charges as [...] New Orleans President Obama has now touched down in Mumbai. Reportedly he is being accompanied by over a hundred American business folks. The noon time arrival of Air Force One and all of these corporate jets from General Electric, Pepsico, and others, must have just about darkened the sky. I hope his staff lets him [...] Mumbai One of the more unusual, and innovative, of the programs associated with ACORN Inte rnational Mumbai Inevitably one cycles back what what hears that is new back to what one knows that is old from your own experience. The more I kept looking at the poster for the bands from Norway and the United Kingdom playing for people in Dharavi in honor of ACORN’s work [...] |
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