Indian Informal Workers are Starving

ACORN ACORN International

My advice to anyone stuck at home and bored is to think about how lucky you are to have food and shelter.  While you’re bored, here’s my advice for a pick me up, and I’ll quote Dharmendra again,

“Kindly donate generously on ACORN International’s website to help us defeat hunger and defeat corona.  All donations will go to feed migrants in India.”

Just say, “Delhi” on the PayPal memo.

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Pandemic Challenges Ad-based Business Models

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04012020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans    One of the stark realities undergirding a number of industries that has been vividly exposed during the current coronavirus pandemic is the fragility of advertising-based business models that actually power tech giants and publications.   We might think the news is what counts or building connections …

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Class and Culture Clashes

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03312020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      Ok, let’s be clear, everything about the pandemic sucks, alright?  For the most part we don’t hate our homes, but we definitely don’t like being told we have to stay at home.  Attach the word, “order,” to it and it brings out the deep …

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