New Orleans Small traders met several weeks ago supported by a half-dozen of the major political parties in India along with several of the national labor centers. The reason was simple: the prime minister’s approval of foreign direct investment (FDI) for single-brand retail. Let me roll it back for you more slowly…. India in the …
Category: ACORN
Keeping the Pot Bubbling with Donna
New Orleans Donna Brazile is good people. Her aunt, Ethel Henderson, was Local 100’s Chief Steward in the Jefferson Parish School System before she retired. She’s been to a mess of leadership trainings and even some ACORN conventions. She’s not strictly a New Orleans girl, because her people mainly stayed in Kenner in Jefferson Parish, …
Community Centres?
Toronto Judy Duncan, the head organizer of ACORN Canada, had scheduled the planning meeting for this year in the Roger Thornton Community Centre in the “program room” on the 2nd floor. Getting in from the airport a couple minutes early I stumbled into the “auditorium,” which was a large open room without chairs where a …