Mumbai Traffic was clogged and swollen everywhere we went. Sharad Rao, the head of the 100,000 member union we had first met the other day, had warned us that the BEST workers who ran and maintained all of the city buses were close to going on strike, and so it had happened on his call …
Month: April 2007
Organizing Small Businesses
Mumbai In building ACORN’s India FDI Watch Campaign to seek to block expansion of foreign direct investment in retail (www.indiafdiwatch.org), the key to finally getting traction on this effort over the last year has been the ability to fully engage the small business community of India in recognizing the threat they face. A year ago …
Housing Schemes
Mumbai The Municipal Corporation of Mumbai has an aggressive goal to eliminate all slums in the city befitting its world class ambitions. They are hard at it. One scheme (as they call such things here) we looked at pretty closely in the Mill lands area with Vinod Shetty, our lawyer, Reena Desai, ACORN’s campaign director …