Bangalore  The meetings are great.  The press conferences are important for the campaign.  All of that is true, but nothing beats the direct organizing — even with translation — that I have had the opportunity to do in more than a half-dozen informal worker communities of different types around this surprisingly large, sprawling 5M+ city. …

Bangalore Vinod Shetty of ACORN India and I joined members of the Farmers and Hawkers unions in Bangalore at the Press Club to release the conclusions of a survey report that our India FDI Watch Campaign had done in partnership with the large NGO, Action Aid.  Not surprisingly at least to us, 96% of the hawkers …

Delhi  It wasn’t just the fact that there were maybe 50- 80 wastepicker workers there at the first conference and now there were close to 500 a year later at the 2nd conference.  It was more a sense that some maturity was coming into the organization, but not just that I guess.  What was really exciting …