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Is Hillary Clinton Heading to Kolkata for Walmart or the USA?

Mamata 'Didi' Banerjee

New Orleans  Secretary of State Hilary after her controversial, chaotic visit to China is stopping by India for 3 days on the way back to the United States.  For undisclosed reasons she is going to visit Kolkata on Monday and its new Chief Minister in West Bengal Didi Banjeree, who displaced the [...]

Who Wants to Bet that Walmart’s Bribery Policy Was Not in Play in India and China?

New Orleans  It still doesn’t mean that Walmart won’t walk away scot-free from its $24 million Mexican bribery scandal (and who knows how much more might have been spent in other countries like India?), but at least some directors may lose their soft perches and have their hands pried loose from the rubberstamps they have [...]

Microfinance Company’s Own Investigation Proves SKS Provoked Suicides

Mother holds one child which the other plays with a photograph of her debt-ridden husband Hari Prasad, who consumed fertilizer chemical to kill himself on Aug. 1, 2010, in the village of Kadiri near Bangalore, India

New Orleans    Working with ACORN International, Melanie Craxton from the University of Edinburgh and I produced a hard [...]

La Sicilian and ACORN’s Dharavi Rocks is a People’s Mag Hero in India

Picture in La Sicilia

Paterno     Monday was a long day in the La Citta campaign office.  The organizing committee was trying to get as many planes in the air as possible, but it was not an easy task.  As a new organization there were the usual tensions of learning what to expect from each other [...]

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 [...]

Anna Hazare and the Gandhian Moment

New Orleans Walking downstairs in the predawn there was the smell of smoke in the air.  It smelled exactly like a Delhi morning where the acrid dawn is a daily greeting.  Something must be burning on the bayous.  It was enough of a sign that it must be time to talk about Anna Hazare [...]