Delhi, India The India Social Forum is an off-shoot, a first cousin of sorts, of the annual World Social Forums that have been growing from their original roots in Porto Allegre, Brazil, to know embrace a world of social movement work. The ISF was the first outing for this enterprise in India, though the World Social …
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Sealing
Delhi, India From the minute I ran into our staff on the India FDI Watch Campaign, it was clear we had a problem. The traders had become one of our staunches allies in the campaign, because they understood their self-interest and realized that the development of “superstore” type operations by Wal-Mart or Wal-Mart wannabes would potentially …
Power Shift — Wage Indexing Now!
Delhi, India A friend on the phone commented that he could hardly remember waking up happy the day after an election in the United States. Another friend from Vancouver peppered me with emails about the power shift and what it would mean. Landing in India for meetings around our campaign to impact any changes in the …