January 31, 2009 New Orleans In 2006 when the Organizers’ Forum delegation from the US and Canada visited Ankara and Istanbul in Turkey we spent several hours visiting with an organizer and a community organizing project among the Roma (gypsies) across the Bosporus Straits on the Asian side of Istanbul. The community was similar …
Month: January 2009
Common Ground Infiltrator
January 31, 2009 New Orleans There was a brief squib on the wire that defied easy explanation. One of the co-founders of Common Ground, an agency that had sprung after Katrina first with a health center on the West Bank and then involved in some recovery work on the East Bank, was revealed to …
Wal-Mart Expanding in Latin America
January 30, 2009 New Orleans Even as we deal with the deepening recession, the huge recovery phenomena of Wal-Mart is hard not to notice. The stock is up. Sales are through the roof as hard strapped, working income customers are desperate to stretch their dollars as far as possible. Store expansion in the US …