https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Neil-Young-17-Campaigner-3479343.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNairobi Visiting with ACORN organizers and members in Korogocho, we kept hearing stories about water cartels, as they were termed, fleecing the poor with higher water charges. The story was confusing. Were these private operators that were allowed to use a vital public service in order to exploit slumdwellers …
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Water is Still a Big Issue on Yucatan Peninsula
Puerto Aventuras Visiting Tulum in Quintana Roo is a breathtaking experience not so much because of the ruins, which pale compared to Chichen Itza and Uxmal, elsewhere on the Yucatan Peninsula, but because of the sweep of the blue-green ocean and the bright blue sky that surrounds what seems almost a fortress at waterside. Tulum …
Chincha Still Trying to Come Back from 2007 Earthquake with Little Help
Lima We drove 200 kilometers from Lima to visit the newest local group in ACORN Peru, Chincha, by the Pacific Ocean south of Lima, a straight shot on the Pan American highway. This was a California climate, except drier perhaps with sand dune mountains along the way. Grapes grow here and wine and Pisco makers abound. …