New Orleans In Florida, there is a well-publicized breech between the Republican Governor and the Republican-controlled legislature over their budget shortfalls and the need to bridge the gaps by expanding Medicaid. The governor, Rick Scott, has gone to wild extremes of suing the federal government to try to force a change in the already …
Category: Financial Justice
The Street Vendors Act 2014
Delhi After eight days on the ground in India and two days in the air and endless discussions of the formally named THE STREET VENDORS (PROTECTION OF LIVELIHOOD AND REGULATION OF STREET VENDING ACT, 2014, which has become our primary organizing tool since formal passage and enactment on May 1, 2014, it was clearly time …
Street Sellers are not Cage Dwellers
Bengaluru Visiting the Yesvantpur markets at dawn on a Sunday morning gave our whole ACORN team a better way of understanding the issues some of members were facing and what our union needed to do to address some of them in the future. As soon as we saw our members in vegetable market spreading out …