Christmas in Antigua

Community Organizing International

Christmas in Antigua             Antigua           They take Christmas very seriously in Guatemala.  Virtually every night we have stumbled into a processional of various shapes and sizes with music, marchers, and a float or nativity scene borne in some fashion traveling Bethlehem.              The marketplaces have been full as the day comes closer.  At noon we …

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Wal-Mart Merry Christmas

Community Organizing International Labor Organizing

Wal-Mart Merry Christmas             Antigua           Scrooge seems to have decided to give little Timmy a lump of coal for Christmas this year.  After multi-year, no-holds barred resistance; Wal-Mart announced they were settling more than 60 back wage and hours cases around the country for close to $400,000,000 on the bottom and perhaps more like $700M …

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