Puerto Playa After more goodbyes and last minute meetings about plans and problems, we were off in a van offered by the general secretary of an island-wide, 50,000 member transport workers union that we were fortunate to meet our last night in Santiago thanks to one of the organizer’s ingenuity (props to Steffan Lajoie!). [...]
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Santiago The leaders met all day from 9 until after 5 and then could be seen continuing the conversations later in the evening. The vision was gripping. They were building a cohesive federation in which they saw solidarity between low income and working families and lower income, regular and informal workers joining together not only [...] Santiago Remittances are the lifeblood of many of the ACORN International communities from Canada to Mexico to India to Kenya, and it was not long into the conversation among all of our organizers before the a campaign and the actions that would bring it to life started to take shape. After years of poking [...] |
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