New Orleans On ACORN International’s research projects over the last six months, I have often credited our “intern army” of young interns and older researchers. I’m now “crowdsourcing” more research. Today thanks go to Jesse Ginsburg, a hard luck Baltimore Orioles diehard fan (congrats on their hot opening this season!) who sent me a couple …
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Hard Times and Wild Kingdom
Nairobi The stories on the streets here and the headlines around the world are daunting. The law trimming back collective bargaining in Ohio seems even worse than Wisconsin. The banks and servicers managed to scuttle another foreclosure avoidance program which would have used $1 billion to bridge losses of income and has not accepted one …
Informal Worker Organizing in Kenya
Discussion with AFL-CIO Solidarity Center in Nairobi Nairobi Our annual check-in with the AFL-CIO’s Nairobi based Solidarity Center working in various eastern African countries like Uganda and Tanzania in addition to Kenya underscored my belief that the future of organizing has to be among the growing numbers of informal workers. Talking with director, Rick Hall, …