New Orleans I love my job! Given the differences in international time zones there are surprises all hours of the day and night, because good organizing is happening 24 hours a day. We are about to celebrate this with the publication by Social Policy Press of Global Grassroots: International Perspectives on Organizing this week, but …
Category: ACORN International
Nadar is Right on Airlines and Small Claims Courts
New Orleans As part of the meetings between ACORN International organizers in Canada, Mexico, Honduras, and elsewhere our up and coming star organizer with Local 100’s program in Dallas was coming. She had never flown on a plane. She had to get a passport for the first time. We were all wildly excited. She was …
A Corrupt Credit Business Model Travels to Chile and Brazil
New Orleans Cred it card scams are the bad penny perfected in the United States that is turning up now elsewhere in the world. These practices are not the foul play of bad actors as predatory lenders always claim, but intrinsic elements of corrupt, exploitive business models. The economic success stories in Brazil and Chile …