Buenos Aires I want to share how exciting it was to be with the organizing committee in the Isidor Casanova district of the mega-slum, La Matanza, yesterday as they planned their first major campaign to clean up the fouled, garbage laden dump that their river has become, but that will have to wait until …
Author: wade
Winning Garbage Pickup and Fighting for Lights in La Matanza
Sometimes the only way to really understand what we are accomplishing in our community organizing with ACORN International is to get squarely on the ground with the organizers and members and get to the heart of what is on their minds, their fights, and sometimes their victories. After a two hour ride from the Capitol …
Ripping off Mexican & Caribbean Migrant Workers in Canada
Buenos Aires One of the flash points in the USA immigration reform debate continues to be over the demand from farmers for help in their fields from migrant agricultural workers. Recently they left the Republican (and Obama Administration) consensus in droves as US-farmer organizations and Congresspeople bridled at the fact that employers, i.e. farmers, would …