Rome Labrino was designed as a plan for a new city (la nuova citta) by the famous architect, Kenzo Tange, and his associates based in Tokyo in the early 1970’s.  Groundbreaking on the first building was in 1976.  This was a grand plan designed for 70,000 people.  There were ten sections of Labrino which would each house …

New York I awoke this morning to a pleasant surprise as I hustled to fly to Sicily.  Sammy Ndirangu, one of our ACORN Kenya, organizers sent a half-dozen pictures of his first organizing committee meeting in the Highridge section of the Korogochu megaslum where we are launching the first two community organizations.  There were 50 …

New Orleans The India FDI Watch Campaign has followed the recent election results closely to see what the impact the Congress victory would have on our 4-year old effort to force any opening of the country to big-box retail, like Wal-Mart to be accountable and regulated. The action of a large parliamentary standing committee on …