Mexico City A highlight of the year is always getting the reports of ACORN International affiliates around the world and hearing about the progress and the challenges members, leaders, and organizers are facing. The obstacles are legion, but so are some of the surprises. Vinod Shetty from Mumbai started the ball rolling with a clear …
Category: Community Organizations International
Daily Caller: Left-wing organizing kingpin: Tea partiers out-organized Occupy Wall Street
** Below is an article taken from The Daily Caller, a right wing news site & blog of an exclusive “interview” with Wade ** By Michael Volpe 10:56 PM 11/24/2011 In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) founder and Service Employees International Union organizer Wade Rathke …
Caveat Emptor / Buyers Beware the Fair Trade Mess
New Orleans Part of the global dispute that ACORN International highlighted in our recently released report, “Unfair Fairtrade” www.acorninternational.org, burst into the business section of the Times in a weird piece of Thanksgiving celebration. The issue engaged most directly continued to be the rouge retreat of Fair Trade USA and its chief, Paul Rice, from …