San Jose For the 3rd straight year the hard-core marines of the anti-big box, who whoop up on Wal-Mart, gathered to exchange tips, celebrate victories, and strategize for the next year. Sponsored by ACORN, WARN (Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now), and the California Health Communities Network (CHCN) more than 60 site fighters came together, this …
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Short Shots
Quito In another setback for globalization DHL did not come through, so this is another "thumbnail" report – literally. Tom Robbins wrote a book about a cowgirl years ago, when I still read fiction, who had a huge hitch-hiking thumb. To think another couple of days like this and I might have two thumbs like …
Laws that Work for Labor
Buenos Aires Hardly five blocks from the ACORN Argentina office on Moreno are a couple of multi-story buildings that house FAECYS, the Federacion Argentina de Empleados de Comercio y Servicios, essentially the union of commerce and service workers. With 800,000 members nearly, FAECYS is perhaps the largest union in the largest federation of workers in …