Nairobi Mark Splain is an organizing manager in the SEIU health care division, but he can join me in counting almost 40 years of seniority in the all phases of the work from labor to community and back and forth again. He has joined me in Nairobi (using a week of his vacation!) so that …
Month: May 2007
Dharavi
Nairobi I opened my current issue of National Geographic on the plane between Detroit and Amsterdam. The cover was about Jamestown, which didn’t hold much interest for me frankly, but what a surprise to find a feature about the giant Dharavi slum in Mumbai, which we had recently visited and discussed. The piece by Mark …
Press in India on FDI
Atlanta I have been back from India for two weeks now, but the heat of the coalition ACORN has helped build through the India FDI Watch Campaign to force corporate accountability to any effort to modify foreign direct investment continues to reverberate there. We joke regularly given our low, behind-the-scenes profile in the United …