New Orleans The International Labor Organization declares today the Day of the War against Child Labor. I posted pictures from the BBC website of child workers from India, thinking about the waste pickers we are organizing there. This was on my mind because Judith Francorsi, an Australian journalist now living in Mumbai, asked me about …
Month: June 2009
Home Rule or Rule Home
New Orleans The uptown “go-go’s” in New Orleans have caught themselves again trying to pull a fast one. After diluting a proposition around creating a city master plan sufficiently to get an approval vote last election, this clique is now unhappy when State Senator Murray (a wannabe mayoral candidate) proposed a bill in the Louisiana …
India FDI Heats Up
New Orleans The India FDI Watch Campaign has followed the recent election results closely to see what the impact the Congress victory would have on our 4-year old effort to force any opening of the country to big-box retail, like Wal-Mart to be accountable and regulated. The action of a large parliamentary standing committee on …