Buenos Aires On the calendar it says that Carnival is a holiday here, but everyone was working on a warm, breezy summer day, except for the bank and government workers. No parades here! The crawl line from CNN said that the business community was ecstatic with the 2nd post-Katrina crowds and from my Google temperature …
Category: ACORN
Worth Noting
Buenos Aires Couple of things that have passed across my desk recently that are worth noting so I will share. One is an architectural award that was recently announced by the American Association of School Administrators for the ACORN Woodland small school in Oakland, California. We received an honorable mention from this school for the design …
Argentina Workers Win on Sundays!
Colonia, Uruguay From the point I landed the ACORN Argentina organizers have been briefing me on the exciting developments with the big multi-national retail supermarket chains, Wal-Mart and Carrefour. Seems at mid-week their union surprisingly led a large march of the workers from the stores into the city of Buenos Aires to protest the fact …