Delhi Having enrolled 1,000 members in the last several months into ACORN India’s first major organizing project in Delhi among informal workers working as waste pickers, the highlight of my trip was being able to be part of the first major organizing meeting of 50 delegates from the ACORN Waste Pickers in the …
Category: Personal Writings
Familiar Voices, Unfamiliar Places
Delhi We can talk about traffic and the heat (4th day over 40 C) as constants in Delhi, but the other is trying to build partnerships and raise resources for our growing India operations. It has been refreshing this trip to run into a variety of organizations that at least knew the language of community …
Trader’s Rally
Delhi The temperature in these days is over 40 Centigrade, which I believe means over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s hot! We weren’t Englishmen, so we must have been the mad dogs, because we were out in the noonday sun for important reasons. Luckily, we were there though with the traders under a thin canopy …