Paterno After a long walk to the Palermo harbor and through the Mercato Ballero, I hauled my stuff over to the voting session of the regional assembly of the Sicilian civic movements. Not surprisingly, it ran 2 ½ hours over the expected time. One delegate proposed 25 amending resolutions to the frustration of some of …
Category: ACORN International
Komen Retreat, Sicilian Shutdown, & Civics at Crossroads
Palermo It was exciting to hear of the Komen retreat before the storm of opposition, web-rage twitter-storm, and plain and simple disgust expressed by women – and men – everywhere for their craven cave-in to Hate Nation and restoration of their funding to Planned Parenthood. The news went across the CNN screen in the …
Turning Up the Heat on FDI and Remittances
New Orleans This report almost writes itself, especially since the pictures virtually tell the story as various organizations in the ACORN International global federation step up to turn on the heat. Ottawa ACORN opens another year of our Remittance Justice Campaign picketing Western Union for predatory pricing of transfers from working, immigrant families back to …