New Orleans John Sweeney was in town again. Last time he was here he told me the investment funds were going to commit one billion big bucks to the recovery. The number sweated down over the last 4-5 weeks to $700 million by the time his picture was in front of the business page with …
Category: Community Organizing
Gloria Goodbye
Washington I met Gloria Wilson in the usual way almost 36 years ago. I knocked on her door. I was going down a street of small bungalow houses in Little Rock’s South End neighborhood. Standing and looking to the east one could see and hear the expressway and the access road 100 feet away. Looking …
Gathering the Anti-FDI Coalition in Mumbai
Mumbai The meeting was slowly pulling together at the Indian Chamber of Commerce building near Churchgate. Mohan Gurani and C.T. Shanghvi from the FAM were running the meeting and giving the background on the fight they had been waging in somewhat lonely and unrewarding fashion since 1999 against proposals to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) …