New Orleans One of the recent breakthroughs in the fight against the corporatization of retail in India being waged through the India FDI Watch Campaign has been to seek to win tax “holidays” for farmers and small vendors selling vegetables to provide a competitive edge against the big box intrusions. Babu Kahn, our organizer …
Category: Personal Writings
Politically Exposed Person
Miami Fly overnight from Lima to Miami one has the opportunity to wait in the airport for quite a bit to get to New Orleans, which today presented the opportunity to read about the travails of Eliot Spitzer over and over again. The most frightening article was not about the soon-to-be former governor’s mishaps, …
Visiting the ACORN Lima Office
Lima Gladys Arnao told me that she thought I had gained a couple of pounds. But, it looked good! Orfa Camacho, our head organizer for ACORN Peru made sure that I understood clearly that it had been 25 months since I had visited ACORN in Lima, and she was keeping track! Angelica Cedano …