New Orleans Walmart annual board meetings are legendary dog-and-pony shows with literally thousands traipsing to Bentonville for a Roman circus of entertainment and company spectacle. This meeting next month may have a sharper edge that not even a packed room of handpicked “associates” can stifle. It will be impossible for the board to ignore shareholders …
Category: International
Petitioning Can Be Dangerous
Reprint of New York Times article March 19, 2012 Activist Said to Be Missing in China By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW BEIJING —Liu Ping, a rights activist who has angered officials in China with her advocacy of free elections and support of labor and women’s rights issues, has been missing since early this month after she …
A Window into the Reality of Organizing in Nairobi’s Korogocho
New Orleans Often it’s hard to describe what ACORN International’s organizing is really like in mega-slums around the world and the very different challenges our organizers face in building effective and potentially powerful membership run and funded community organizations. Last week ACORN Kenya had scheduled a large rally in Korogocho, the 2nd largest mega-slum of …