Quito It is impossible to read the tragic tales of sweatshop fires in Bangladesh and Pakistan without coming to the conclusion that literally the very best of intentions have in fact “paved the road to hell.” The story by Declan Walsh and Steven Greenhouse in the New York Times, “Certified Safe, A Factory in Karachi Quickly …
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Governments and Housing: Mortgage Reform in the US and Formalization in Quito Norte
Quito Housing was on my mind. I spent hours yesterday in a pickup riding the steep roads and byways of Quito Norte with our team and local barrio leaders in the area, four up front and three in the back. We traveled more than a dozen kilometers up, down and around the mountain sides, often with …
Walmart Watch: Occupy Reunion, Bangladesh Fire, and Spreading Retail Chaos
New Orleans The protests of Black Friday may be over but that’s about all that’s over on either Black Friday or the woeful Walmart watch. Occupy’s Role in Protests One interesting side note of the protests is the critical, though largely unrecognized, role of the remnants of last year’s Occupy Wall Street movement and its …