Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, and the Cream

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10082019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        Ginger Baker, the great rock and whatever drummer, passed away at eighty as I flew back across time from Katmandu to New Orleans.   There was a full-page obituary for Baker in the New York Times, which measures the sound and fury of his playing …

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The Challenge of Building Capacity to Get to Scale in India

ACORN ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10072019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsDoha      All Saturday and Sunday, the ACORN India team and I kept the conversations going as we continued to make progress.   We debated adding a website.  We dug deep on accessing our community radio access through AM/FM and acornradio.org with commitments made to produce weekly shows …

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Pushing Against the Wave, Progress in India

ACORN ACORN International International Labor Organizing Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10062019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsKatmandu       Having not been able to meet with the ACORN India team for over three years given my inability to have my 10-year visa renewed, I was curious about what I would hear from their reports after my long absence on the ground.  Would we have made …

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