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Picking at the Landfill

Community Organizing International Labor Organizing November 1, 2008 by wade

Picking at the Landfill Mumbai Perhaps predictably, there is a hierarchy in rag picking, like so many other professions. The simple rule is easy to follow: the closer you are to the source of the garbage, the better your yield, and therefore your income. Like so many businesses, you do better, if you have …

Ragpickers Diwali

Community Organizing International Labor Organizing October 31, 2008 by wade

Ragpickers Diwali October 30, 2008 Mumbai As part of ACORN International, ACORN India, and the ACORN Foundation’s program, we have initiated the Dharavi Project, as an initiative for the ragpickers. I will talk more about this in coming days, because it is an exciting project and an interesting and different strategy for us to …

Dharavi Recycling Centers

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues International Labor Organizing October 31, 2008 by wade

Dharavi Recycling Centers Mumbai The Dharavi neighborhood is famous in Bombay at least as famous as a mega-slum can be with almost a million people living in a slum almost in the center of the city on what remains of all wetlands from the rancid remains of a river running to the Indian Ocean …