San Francisco 27 Days in Exile Hard to keep everyone up to date with all that is happening. A good example was several weeks ago, when the Site Fighters Conference kicked off at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg on the 1st and 2nd of September. This was a meeting of organizers — men and …
Category: WalMart
WARN Forces Wal-Mart to Blink
St. Petersburg: Close readers will remember the earlier entry here that detailed the WARN fight against the Wal-Mart proposal to build a super center on wetlands on Gandy Road in St. Petersburg. The day after a heavily attended and well covered roadside protest including all of the WARN alliance of organizations from ACORN to Sierra Club to …
Wal-Mart in the SEEPZ
Mumbai: Arriving to the hotel at 1 AM, waking up at 630 AM, we were hurtin’ for certain, but still excited to be in India and about the business at hand. We met early with Brother Ramen Pandey, General Organizer for the India National Trade Union Council (INTUC) and head of their youth division. He …