New Orleans Using the weekend to catch up on old papers, magazines, and whatever, allowed me to stumble on some head scratchers. Newsweek has a new format in order to try and survive as a news-based magazine in the cutthroat environment of the internet and the 24-hour news cycle. Sometimes they try to stir the …
Category: International
Sweatshops Alive and Well
New Orleans In the prevailing wisdom and the back pats that we like to sometimes hope are well earned and deserved, in speaking with students on university campuses about organizing chapters to support ACORN International’s organizing in various countries I have occasionally used cited the effectiveness of the anti-sweatshop movement as exhibit one for why …
Rag Pickers Innovation
New Orleans There’s a 10 ½ hour time difference from Mumbai to New Orleans, and to ACORN India Mumbai’s director, Vinod Shetty, it was a surprise when earlier today, a delegation including the consul general himself and political director for Mumbai showed up as part of a delegation that wanted to see what ACORN India’s …