https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10252019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsSan Pedro Sula In almost any work on social movements and social change organizations, authors are usually crystal clear: protest is an exercise of the powerless. Contemporary politics may be turning this world of certainty upside down. In recent years we have already seen “walkouts” become popular …
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Chincha Still Trying to Come Back from 2007 Earthquake with Little Help
Lima We drove 200 kilometers from Lima to visit the newest local group in ACORN Peru, Chincha, by the Pacific Ocean south of Lima, a straight shot on the Pan American highway. This was a California climate, except drier perhaps with sand dune mountains along the way. Grapes grow here and wine and Pisco makers abound. …
Blood and Eyes: Organizing Small Retail Workers in Bengaluru
Bengaluru In the process of visiting several of our organizing sites with Bengaluru organizer, Suresh Kadashan, we spent about two-thirds of the time on the buses of the city and one-third of our time actually meeting with the vendors in various locations where they worked in either a market or the street or as traders …