Business Assistance Living Wage Campaigns

Community Organizing Financial Justice Labor Organizing Organizing WalMart

New Orleans               Support is increasingly lining up in New York City and elsewhere not simply for living wage ordinances, but more specifically for a more targeted type of living wage program where public dollars are partnered with private development.  These so-called “business assistance” living wage ordinances that also draw from experiences with “community benefit agreements” …

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Suspension of FDI Rules Change in India

ACORN International WalMart

New Orleans              Dharmendra Kumar, campaign director of the India FDI Watch Campaign (www.indiafdiwatch.org), an organizational affiliate and campaign of ACORN International, has been emailing and telling me for days that the outcry against the Indian government’s recent announcement that it would open foreign direct investment to multi-brand retail was intense and unyielding in Delhi and …

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