San Pedro Sula ACORN in Honduras has almost one-hundred members in the town of El Progresso, one of the many maquila centers for out-of-country manufacturing companies on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula and this area which is the industrial heart of Honduras. Since the biggest employer is Gildan, the Montreal-based t-shirt and textile company …
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Lake Charles’ NIC at Forty and the Art of the Bank Fair
New Orleans Lake Charles is a middle-sized Louisiana city better known for oil refineries, chemical plants, and the fact that the city is home to the closest casinos to the Texas border. Depending on the traffic through Baton Rouge crossing the Mississippi River and the amount of construction on the great east-west highway, Interstate …
The Contradictory European Legacy of Saul Alinsky
Brussels Saul Alinsky would have wanted to be seen as a realist, so I can easily imagine him just shrugging and saying the equivalent of a “whatever” from more than 45 years ago. The right seems to read him more closely than the left, both in the US and abroad, but at least some are …