Lima The highlight of our first day of assembling the staff from Peru, Canada, the United Labor Unions, Mexico, and Honduras was taking the collectivo (bus) to see the great progress that Orfa Camacho, ACORN Peru’s head organizer, had been reporting was being won in the asentamiento humanos (the people living on the mountain sides) …
Author: wade
Traveling to Machu Picchu after the Mudslides
Cusco The regular readers are going to pass this blog by and that’s far enough, but I’m going to lay out some travel tips as a public service of sorts for some of the 400,000 visitors to Machu Picchu, one of the wonder’s of the world by any reckoning, who happen to check the internet …
Goldman Sachs and South Shore Bank
Cusco If ACORN represented the “gold standard in advocacy,” as I once heard a Gates Foundation program officer say to me about the work of New Orleans ACORN post-Katrina, then South Shore Bank in Chicago held a similar position in the community development world. One of our old friends from Little Rock, Bob Nash, who …