Delhi Every conversation Dharmendra Kumar, ACORN India’s Delhi Director, and I had about our communities in East Delhi and especially about our emerging unions of informal workers, kept running into the up coming Commonwealth Games to be held starting October 3rd a little less than 6 months away. This was especially the case when he …
Category: International
Doha to Delhi Time Warp
Delhi There’s no way around it – moving half-way across the world still is a schlep, as they say, even at these prices. I climbed onto Qatar Airlines, heavily promoted as a 5 star carrier, in Dulles (DC) a little before midnight on Monday night and stepped off the plane in Delhi at 3 AM …
Montreal’s Decentralized Powerlessness
Montreal Spring is still an unconfirmed rumor here it turned out, as afternoon winds signaled a front lowering the temperature from a sunny day to what ended up as 15 degrees and a wind chill beneath contempt. Fortunately for Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada’s Head Organizer, and Jill O’Reilly, the head organizer for Ottawa ACORN, we …