New Orleans Working with ACORN International, Melanie Craxton from the University of Edinburgh and I produced a hard hitting report, Mega Troubles for Microfinance, calling into question the claims that microfinance reduces poverty and the entire model of unsustainable practices, collection methods, and the resource bubble fueling their growth. Sadly, a story written by the …
Month: March 2012
How Can Kamal Abbas be Sentenced to Jail Now in Egypt?
New Orleans When the Organizers’ Forum visited Cairo in the fall of 2011 one of the most impressive people we met was Kamal Abbas, the long time director of the Center for Trade Union and Worker Services (CTUWS), based in Cairo. We visited him in his offices and were intrigued and inspired by the accounts of …
Adios, Andrew Breitbart
New Orleans Andrew Breitbart’s career speaks loudly to the ongoing American phenomena of the winking carnie barker, P. T. Barnum huckster who always had something to sell and could find the suckers that would buy it. Breitbart’s passionate mission to destroy “progressive institutions” was clearly stated and there were plenty of rubes in cities large …