Buenos Aires Hardly five blocks from the ACORN Argentina office on Moreno are a couple of multi-story buildings that house FAECYS, the Federacion Argentina de Empleados de Comercio y Servicios, essentially the union of commerce and service workers. With 800,000 members nearly, FAECYS is perhaps the largest union in the largest federation of workers in …
Category: International
New Latin American Organizers
Buenos Aires In the afternoon Ercilia Sahores, ACORN’s Latin American Director, and I sat down individually and then collectively with our newest head organizers in training, both of whom are now completing their first organizing drives in various neighborhoods in the city. It was quite exciting to talk about plans for the fall …
Sudan Boycott Impact
Buenos Aires A couple of weeks ago I was meeting with a woman in New York, who put down the phone to explain that she was just arranging “kidnap and ransom” insurance for the actress, Mia Farrow, who was preparing to leave with a delegation to Sudan to protest the genocide there. I was …