Mumbai The missing ingredient in all of the pieces of the India FDI Watch Campaign has been having an independent mass base that we could bring to the table to augment the strength of our alliance partners. We needed our own strike force for actions, and, just as in Delhi with the work among …
Category: International
ACORN Waste Pickers First Meeting
Delhi Having enrolled 1,000 members in the last several months into ACORN India’s first major organizing project in Delhi among informal workers working as waste pickers, the highlight of my trip was being able to be part of the first major organizing meeting of 50 delegates from the ACORN Waste Pickers in the …
Familiar Voices, Unfamiliar Places
Delhi We can talk about traffic and the heat (4th day over 40 C) as constants in Delhi, but the other is trying to build partnerships and raise resources for our growing India operations. It has been refreshing this trip to run into a variety of organizations that at least knew the language of community …