Vancouver The World Urban Forum is a biennial affair put together by UN-Habitat to look the issue raised by cities and the continued concentration of the world’s population in urban areas and the massive issues that follow. They talk about these problems at least, and we will have to see if they do anything about …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Big Labor and Big Dollars
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 …
Building a Movement and the Weight of the Past?
Delhi In building our campaign against the FDI being expanded in retail we continued on a Saturday in Delhi to push forward at the highest level with our new friends and what would have sometimes seemed strange bedfellows. Meeting with G. Devarajan, the Central Committee Secretary of All India Forward Bloc, one of the small …