Buenos Aires La Matanza means the massacre and is named after a massacre of the native Indians by the Spanish at the birth of the city in the 16th century. The massacre now occurring in the 21st century is perhaps more indiscriminate and involves poor and working families generally. We gathered the whole ACORN Argentina …
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Argentina Workers Win on Sundays!
Colonia, Uruguay From the point I landed the ACORN Argentina organizers have been briefing me on the exciting developments with the big multi-national retail supermarket chains, Wal-Mart and Carrefour. Seems at mid-week their union surprisingly led a large march of the workers from the stores into the city of Buenos Aires to protest the fact …
We Could Win In Kibera
Washington I know you are about sick of hearing about Africa, so with this we will go on about our business, but I have to share that the more I think about it, the more I feel certain that “we could win” in Kibera. By that I mean that a community organization built with a …