Buenos Aires We heard the noise and all walked out on the balcony of one of the newest ACORN offices in the world in Buenos Aires, where Ercilia Sahores, ACORN’s Latin American Director, and three other organizers have spent the first month of ACORN Argentina laying the groundwork for our first community organizations in La …
Category: International
Wal-Mart Woes
Miami When you are on a losing streak, it shows and everyone knows, and that’s the story of Wal-Mart these days on many fronts. Several months ago the behemoth company was forced to pull up stakes in South Korea, and over the last week the news broke that Wal-Mart sold all of its stores in …
The Bandar Station
Washington Through the magic of Google Talk which allows me to keep up with our international operation with the luxury of free internet calls, I spent a chunk of time with Reena Desai, our campaign director in India around blocking the expansion of foreign direct investment in retail for Wal-Mart and its pals (www.indiafdiwatch.org). I …