New Orleans For years the India FDI Watch Campaign supported by ACORN International has campaigned to make sure that any modification in foreign direct investment would protect the 20,000,000 small retailers, birani shop keepers, brokers, and others would be done responsibly. Working to build a large, diverse national coalition, the …
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Unfair Fairtrade
New Orleans ACORN International released a hard-hitting report that was the result of extensive research during the summer, largely conducted by Melanie Craxton, an economics major at the University of Edinburg, interning in the New Orleans headquarters. Because of our partnership with COMUCAP, the women’s coffee and aloe vera growing cooperative in Marcala, Honduras, and …
Going Bio-Diesel, New Orleans First!
New Orleans My crash course in the chemistry and advantages of bio-diesel started with a phone call almost a year ago from a union steward I knew who worked for the City of Santa Barbara in California. He and a buddy had spent a world of time and no small amount of money building a …
Forty-one Years of ACORN: Celebrating a Day in the Work
Ottawa Having founded ACORN in Little Rock, Arkansas forty-one years ago today, it is hard not to reflect on how fortunate I have been to be a part of ACORN in one form or another all of those years, first as Chief Organizer of ACORN in the United States for thirty-eight years and now adding …
Mortenson, Krakauer, and Three Cups of Deceit
New Orleans Recently, I reacted to a Nicholas Kristof column in the New York Times about the controversy around Greg Mortenson, his charity – the Central Asia Institute, the author and journalist Jon Krakauer and his expose. I thought Kristof’s mea culpa about Mortenson being his friend and his hope that there was “another side …