New Orleans Alicia Russell is one of our great ACORN leaders from Phoenix and the ACORN Western Regional Representative on the ACORN National Board. She works hard, takes the organization very, very seriously, is a pleasure to work with, and never ever calls me at home or on a Saturday evening. I was sitting at …
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Livelihoods vs. Modernity
Mumbai Around the table were our key leaders from the Federation of Associations of Maharashtra (FAM), the huge traders organization that had been with us since the beginning of the India FDI Watch Campaign, the leader of the Congress of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) in Mumbai, the head of the hawkers and the mathadi …
Our Hawkers Union Organizing Comittee
Mumbai The missing ingredient in all of the pieces of the India FDI Watch Campaign has been having an independent mass base that we could bring to the table to augment the strength of our alliance partners. We needed our own strike force for actions, and, just as in Delhi with the work among …