Violent Resistance to Sugar Cane Union in Cameroon

ACORN International Cameroon Protests Strike Unions

           Mumbai           STRASCAS is the ACORN-affiliated union of sugar cane workers working in the plantations and processing facilities outside of Yaoundé in Cameroon.  This isn’t an easy to story to follow, but it’s an important one that I’ve mentioned briefly before.  Karina Bhatt, a reporter for the Caravel, a student paper at Georgetown University in …

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International Organizers Meet

ACORN International Affiliates Australia Cameroon Canada England France India Ireland Kenya Liberia Scotland Uganda United States Wales

            Shepley, Yorkshire      Fifty organizers from France, Canada, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the United States came together in Yorkshire, England for our annual ACORN International organizers’ meeting for this year.  Another bunch from Kenya, Australia, Liberia, Uganda, India, and Cameroon joined at different times via Zoom, along with other leaders and organizers from France, …

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