Buenos Aires Having a pity party in Buenos Aires for a pathetic minute. Part of my work here over the last week has been starting the “Katrina book” tentatively called Dat 9: ACORN and the Fight to Rebuild New Orleans. In addition to tending to our office here, meeting new staff, visiting with some allies, …
Category: ACORN
Earthquake in Peru
Buenos Aires Today is a holiday here. Celebrating winter perhaps or an excuse for a day off in winter. New computer crashed and won’t reboot so this a blackberry blog! By the way think twice about Microsoft Windows Vista Office. The bugs are still boring inside that baby! Ask me or ask techno-wizard and …
Laws that Work for Labor
Buenos Aires Hardly five blocks from the ACORN Argentina office on Moreno are a couple of multi-story buildings that house FAECYS, the Federacion Argentina de Empleados de Comercio y Servicios, essentially the union of commerce and service workers. With 800,000 members nearly, FAECYS is perhaps the largest union in the largest federation of workers in …