New Orleans This had to be a hot ticket! Waste Land was an Audience Award Best Documentary (Waste Land Trailerat the prestigious 2010 Sundance Film Festival focusing on a powerful confluence of art and poverty and the lives of waste pickers in one of the world’s largest landfills, Jardim Gramacho, outside of the magical city …
Category: ACORN International
Growing Support for Remittance Justice
New Orleans The transfers of money from families working in developed countries through remittances back to their families in their home countries soars at the end of the year just about everywhere and big time in Latin America given Christmas and New Years. The hard hitting ACORN International report issued right before the holidays, Past …
Avaaz.org
New Orleans It is hard to explain how I stumbled on an organization with 6.5 million members, but in the modern world of high tech campaigning and low entry internet membership, it turns out to be easy to do, and that was the case for me and Avaaz.org when I was contacted by a Berlin-based, …