New Orleans The India FDI Watch Campaign, a project supported by ACORN International, said it all in a recent bulletin when it juxtaposed two articles a year apart. In one case Tesco, the giant UK retailer, scoffed at the Wal-Mart backdoor entry into India as a partner with Bharti, as “illegal.” In the piece …
Month: August 2008
Building Bad Loans
New Orleans A friend sent me an interesting report done by the Laborers’ International Union called “The Ticking Time Bomb: Adjustable Rate Mortgages and Depreciating Home Values in New Subdivisions.” Our old comrade and colleague, Jordan Ash, seemed to be the principal author of the report, and we were curious how he had been …
Obama’s Organizing Boss
Gulf Shores Reading Obama’s Dreams book, I became interested in the organizer Obama mentioned who had hired him in Chicago and was his supervisor. His name was Jerry Kellman, and he seemed to be the real thing, but I was surprised that I had never heard of him in all my years around the work. …