Lima: Palomino was a ranging complex of several thousand apartment units that had been built in the mid-1960’s as housing for workers by the government of the Municipality of Lima. Families now owned their apartments, and given the economy of Peru over recent years, these units were now home to many generations of a family …
Category: Labor Organizing
WARN 1 — Wal-Mart 0
St. Petersburg: Over recent months WARN assembled a community alliance that consisted of ACORN groups, civic associations, the Sierra Club, the local labor council, and a bunch of others to speak clearly to the city fathers of St. Petersburg, Florida, on the question of exactly why did Wal-Mart need to build a store on Gandy Road …
Santa Fe Supercenter
Santa Fe: An e-mail trail started with Jim Gollin from the Rain Forest Action Network and moved from a friend to a friend to a friend and an invitation to come visit with activists forming a coalition with serious questions about a Wal-Mart proposal to locate a nearly 150,000 square feet Supercenter in the City of …