Bangalore Despite the different ways that I received this city, the whole situation is deceptive it seems. With more than 6 million people in the metropolitan area, Bangalore has become the 5th largest metro area of India and by some reports is now the 3rd largest city, though it is hard for me to believe …
Category: WalMart
Organizing Small Businesses
Mumbai In building ACORN’s India FDI Watch Campaign to seek to block expansion of foreign direct investment in retail (www.indiafdiwatch.org), the key to finally getting traction on this effort over the last year has been the ability to fully engage the small business community of India in recognizing the threat they face. A year ago …
Waiting for an Apology
Houston According the funny papers, Wal-Mart has started apologizing to some of the groups that it considered “threats” for its surveillance activities, saying essentially to some of them that, “Hey, we didn’t mean to do anything bad to you, and we’re sorry, y’all!” Must be another problem because we have not received our apology …