Little Rock The good news for the Remittance Justice Campaign in recent weeks has been significant. The bill was reintroduced in Ontario to cap the cost of remittances at 5% in line with the G-8 large industrial countries and World Bank goals. Studies by students at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and the Georgia State …
Month: April 2013
The New Battlegrounds for Disability Rights
New Orleans Sometimes in organizing we can see bits and pieces that seem isolated from place to place start to come together more firmly into something that might be greater than the sum of some small parts. Perhaps this is happening now for advocates and adherents of disability rights over the issues of accommodation in …
The Drunken Race to Hook Africans on Beer
New Orleans In Nariobi the question in a bar that always made you step back and think if you ordered a beer was whether you wanted it cold or warm, meaning at room temperature. Given the state of refrigeration and the cost of electricity in the country, so many people had gotten used to drinking beer …