New Orleans Spending any day in Mexico City with Suyapa Amador, head organizer of ACORN Mexico, involves at least one and sometimes two and three stops at local stores to buy minutes for her cell phone. Thanks to the virtual monopoly that Telcel, a subsidiary of America Movil owned by gazillionaire Carlos Slim Helu, not …
Category: ACORN International
Mortenson, Krakauer, and Three Cups of Deceit
New Orleans Recently, I reacted to a Nicholas Kristof column in the New York Times about the controversy around Greg Mortenson, his charity – the Central Asia Institute, the author and journalist Jon Krakauer and his expose. I thought Kristof’s mea culpa about Mortenson being his friend and his hope that there was “another side …
Canadian Farm Workers Court Setback but Workers’ Rights Advance
Vancouver The election news was hard last night, even though there was a lot of “on the one hand, and on the other hand,” because the Conservative, hard right party won a majority and a 5-year guarantee on federal political control. On the other hand, the New Democratic Party (NDP) after 50 years became the …