Delhi Last year’s stubbed toes in Delhi over India’s first shot at hosting the Commonwealth Games are still in the news in the wake of continued outrage at the national embarrassment caused by the widespread corruption that revealed shoddy construction and desultory preparations. The headlines were full of charges and counter charges as the special …
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Support the Save the Khimki Forest Movement
New York City In the fall of 2007 a delegation of labor and community organizers with the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) visited with organizers doing similar work in Moscow and St. Petersburg. One of the more moving meetings we had was with a young, passionate and spirited mother, who told the story of moving with her …
Mobile Phone Money Transfers No Panacea Yet
New Orleans The bleeding edge hope for technology in handling finance is often seen as Africa and more specifically Kenya and very pointedly mobile phones. To the degree a mobile phone system could obviate having bank accounts and ease the problems and costs of money transfer for remittances, this could be a good news except …