Ottawa Having founded ACORN in Little Rock, Arkansas forty-one years ago today, it is hard not to reflect on how fortunate I have been to be a part of ACORN in one form or another all of those years, first as Chief Organizer of ACORN in the United States for thirty-eight years and now adding …
Category: ACORN International
FairTrade: Volume versus Premium Pricing
Ottawa Thanks to Rob Clarke, director of FairTrade Canada, the affiliated licensing and marketing combine for fair trade certified products in Canada, and his excellent team, I got a quick education and a lot of offers for help in advancing ACORN International’s partnership with COMUCAP, the women’s coffee and aloe vera co-op in Honduras. I …
Banks Silently Step up on Remittances
Atlanta On ACORN International’s Remittance Justice Campaign (www.remittancejustice.org) we have had difficulty getting any response from the big banks except in the most cursory terms. Wells Fargo did finally reply and told us they were doing great within a small footprint of countries. Bank of America and JP Morgan/Chase were stone silent. Not surprisingly given …