Indian Informal Workers are Starving

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My advice to anyone stuck at home and bored is to think about how lucky you are to have food and shelter.  While you’re bored, here’s my advice for a pick me up, and I’ll quote Dharmendra again,

“Kindly donate generously on ACORN International’s website to help us defeat hunger and defeat corona.  All donations will go to feed migrants in India.”

Just say, “Delhi” on the PayPal memo.

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Some Changes the Coronavirus Should Bring

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03272020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     In the Age of Trump and the Time of the Coronavirus, there seems to be constant speculation about what changes in our society, habits, and government might be permanent given our collective experience.  Much of this is hyperbole.  One pundit argued that he went “to …

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Real Community Organizations with a Base Step Up in a Crisis

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     There are so many things about the response to the coronavirus crisis that remind me of the response to Hurricane Katrina and its devastation of New Orleans and parts of the Gulf Coast.  Mostly, that’s not a good thing, because the governmental response was horrifically …

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