San Pedro Sula ACORN in Honduras has almost one-hundred members in the town of El Progresso, one of the many maquila centers for out-of-country manufacturing companies on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula and this area which is the industrial heart of Honduras. Since the biggest employer is Gildan, the Montreal-based t-shirt and textile company …
Category: Organizing
“The Organizer” a Big Hit at the Festival des Libertes
Brussels Perhaps the most interesting question I have gotten at a screening of “The Organizer” in a long time came from Professor Philippe van Parijs of the University of Louvain in Belgium, a noted scholar long recognized over many decades as an expert and advocate of universal basic income. He asked a several part question, …
VioMe
Athens Perhaps nothing so epitomizes the “crisis” in Greece, as it is universally called, than the VioMe, a former metallurgical factory in the industrial district not far from the airport. In 2011, when the full brunt of the economic collapse hit the country and the Greek owner of the plant suddenly shut the factory down, …