New Orleans We have spoken of the important potential of cell phones in this space before, but it was a delight to read Sara Corbett’s piece in the Sunday Times “Can the Cell Phone Help End Global Poverty?” She made some of the points we have speculated on here. The increasingly ubiquitous investment in …
Month: April 2008
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New York City An email came to me out of nowhere inquiring about ACORN International and our interest in partnering on global health care work. The good doctor and professor at Brown, David Egilman, knew our reputation and thought we might be able to do the field work while his outfit — GHETS, Global …
Employee Free Choice
New York City No stronger case was made at the recent dialogue of the Organizers’ Forum of the critical opportunity to increase progressive capacity and impact additionally on equity than the one made by the labor participants from the AFT, SEIU, UFCW, and the AFL-CIO. Stewart Acuff, the AFL’s Organizing Director, and Fred Azarcate, …