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: Community Organizing
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 …
Bill’s 1st Grant
New Orleans A press conference last Friday in Harlem marked a good milestone. Former President Bill Clinton joined with Maude Hurd, ACORN’s President, and a dozen Katrina survivors working with ACORN in New York City, and announced the first grant of the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation would be $250,000 to ACORN. The grant was to …