Washington Through the magic of Google Talk which allows me to keep up with our international operation with the luxury of free internet calls, I spent a chunk of time with Reena Desai, our campaign director in India around blocking the expansion of foreign direct investment in retail for Wal-Mart and its pals (www.indiafdiwatch.org). I …
Month: July 2006
Becoming a Target
Columbus It is a weird (and I suppose discouraging) fact of contemporary public life in the mega-media and mile-a-minute internet market that there has become an inverse ratio of attack that comes with accomplishment. The bigger ACORN becomes, the more it becomes a target for the haters, the baiters, pretenders and posers, and the apologists …
Celebrity at the ACORN Convention
July 10, 2006 – Columbus – Woke at 430 AM in dark. I listened in this 40+ year old dorm to showers running and doors slamming as other organizers moved to prepare luggage for loading in vast depots for bus pickups all over the Ohio State campus. None of this is easy, but it is …