Catania After flying on four planes to JFK, then Zurich, then Milan, I finally arrived in Catania, the 2nd largest city of Sicily, around 8PM on Thursday. Professor Ken Reardon from the University of Memphis and me turn out to be headliners at a conference Dal Locale al Globale: Organizzare le comunita per lo sviluppo …
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First Organizing Meeting in Nairobi
New York I awoke this morning to a pleasant surprise as I hustled to fly to Sicily. Sammy Ndirangu, one of our ACORN Kenya, organizers sent a half-dozen pictures of his first organizing committee meeting in the Highridge section of the Korogochu megaslum where we are launching the first two community organizations. There were 50 …
Global Action on Remittances
New Orleans On June 16th Community Organizations International (formerly ACORN International) embarked on our first “global action” as protesting the excessive and predatory costs of remittances and demanding reform. There was great excitement as the reports – and especially the pictures and news reports – came in first from Delhi and then Mumbai where demands …