Delhi Two-hundred people packed the auditorium on this late Sunday morning in order to hear remarks and strategize about what they called the “corporate hijacking of retail.” Now in the 2nd year of our India FDI Watch Campaign, we and our allies had succeeded in creating huge awareness around the issue and had stalled the …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Organizing Small Businesses
Mumbai In building ACORN’s India FDI Watch Campaign to seek to block expansion of foreign direct investment in retail (www.indiafdiwatch.org), the key to finally getting traction on this effort over the last year has been the ability to fully engage the small business community of India in recognizing the threat they face. A year ago …
Housing Schemes
Mumbai The Municipal Corporation of Mumbai has an aggressive goal to eliminate all slums in the city befitting its world class ambitions. They are hard at it. One scheme (as they call such things here) we looked at pretty closely in the Mill lands area with Vinod Shetty, our lawyer, Reena Desai, ACORN’s campaign director …