Washington In dealing with companies and their corporate citizenship, whether on the neighborhood level the size of a pay-day lender or on the global scale with the reach of a Wal-Mart, I think there have to be rules of engagement. I have been preaching this for a while and had perhaps deceived myself into believing …
Author: wade
The Bandar Station
Washington Through the magic of Google Talk which allows me to keep up with our international operation with the luxury of free internet calls, I spent a chunk of time with Reena Desai, our campaign director in India around blocking the expansion of foreign direct investment in retail for Wal-Mart and its pals (www.indiafdiwatch.org). I …
Becoming a Target
Columbus It is a weird (and I suppose discouraging) fact of contemporary public life in the mega-media and mile-a-minute internet market that there has become an inverse ratio of attack that comes with accomplishment. The bigger ACORN becomes, the more it becomes a target for the haters, the baiters, pretenders and posers, and the apologists …