New Orleans For years the India FDI Watch Campaign supported by ACORN International has campaigned to make sure that any modification in foreign direct investment would protect the 20,000,000 small retailers, birani shop keepers, brokers, and others would be done responsibly. Working to build a large, diverse national coalition, the …
Month: November 2011
Caveat Emptor / Buyers Beware the Fair Trade Mess
New Orleans Part of the global dispute that ACORN International highlighted in our recently released report, “Unfair Fairtrade” www.acorninternational.org, burst into the business section of the Times in a weird piece of Thanksgiving celebration. The issue engaged most directly continued to be the rouge retreat of Fair Trade USA and its chief, Paul Rice, from …
Egyptian Protests: The Struggle Between Freedom and Power
New Orleans Every once in a while the issues become crystal clear even in the fog of the continuing protests in Tahrir Square that are once again constant around the clock with hundreds of thousands contending with the recalcitrant military forces. Yesterday in noting that the Muslim Brotherhood had started …