Quito A highlight of the Americas meeting of ACORN International organizers in Quito was a visit with Olivia Zuniga Caceres, the oldest daughter of Berta Caceres, the indigenous, land protection and environmental activist assassinated in Honduras hardly three months ago. Olivia was in Quito to give a talk about the ongoing struggle and accept an …
Month: June 2016
The Hard Nuts and Bolts of Organizing in Honduras
Quito Erlyn Perez, the head organizer in Tegucigalpa, Suyapa Amador, the head organizer and sparkplug of San Pedro Sula, Marcos Gomez, ACORN Canada’s campaign director, and I spent 3 hours trying to get our arms around the great progress of ACORN Honduras in the last several years, as well as the difficult question of whether …
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner and Why Care Counts
Quito The title of the book had a nice hook, Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner by the Swedish journalist Katrine Marcal, but the subtitle was equally engaging: The Story of Women and Economics, so I grabbed it. And, so should you! The answer to the book’s leading question is Martha Douglas, the name of Adam …