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Public Statement
May 28th, 2018
WALMART-FLIPKART DEAL: CONTINUING ATTACK ON RETAILERS, PRODUCERS, FARMERS & LABOUR, AND ON INDIA’S DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY
The US based Multinational Corporation (MNC) Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart undermines India’s economic and digital sovereignty and the livelihood of millions in India. If the $ 16 billion deal goes through, two US companies (the other being Amazon) will dominate India’s e-retail sector. They will also own India’s key consumer and other economic data, making them our digital overlords, joining the ranks of Google and Facebook.
The acquisition of the largest e-commerce firm promoted by Indian entrepreneurs is the latest step in a series of developments aimed at circumventing the existing cap on FDI in multi-brand retail by permitting foreign-owned online retail in India, and developing a digital stranglehold by foreign companies over India’s consumer goods value chains.
This process saw the gradual take-over of majority stake in the formerly Indian-owned Flipkart, the entry of the world’s largest e-retailer Amazon, and now the take-over of Flipkart by Walmart. Jack Ma, head of China’s Alibaba, says all e-commerce companies now have integrated online and offline strategies, consolidating operations towards one ‘new retail’. This is also evidenced by recent moves in the US by Walmart to enter e-retail and by Amazon to move into brick-and-mortar retail. It should therefore be clear to everyone that allowing FDI in e-retail in India is but a back-door entry of foreign players into multi-brand retail. Ironically, the same political party, which a decade ago strongly opposed the entry of Walmart into India, is now happy to welcome its far more powerful, digitally-enabled avatar.
India’s domestic digital retail industry will of course suffer by the domination of these two US MNCs. But worst affected will be small brick-and-mortar retail stores accounting for over 90% of the Indian retail sector, SME manufacturers, small delivery companies and suppliers of goods including farmers whose margins will be ruthlessly squeezed, with their behaviour digitally-controlled. Walmart is well-known for its global supply chain, especially of cheap goods from China, which means local manufacturers and suppliers will suffer deep hits.
This is similar to what would happen with FDI in brick-and-mortar multi-brand retail. It will, in fact, be worse, as digitally-enabled ‘new retail’ becomes omnipresent and omnipotent. The concentration of economic power with the two US MNCs, now constituting a potential duopoly in India, will render them too powerful to be meaningfully regulated. In the US, the trail of destruction of small stores, local businesses, small manufacturers and countless workers left behind by Walmart and other giant retailers is well documented, and the EU has also witnessed the same. ‘New retail’ seeks to own and control key data of all trading activity across sectors resulting in unassailable power. National policy or regulatory remits over them would then be as ineffective as they currently are over Google or Facebook. Manufacturers, suppliers and traders, producers and service providers, all become enslaved to digitally controlled platforms, working as per their parameters, but denied any rights or benefits. In this context, it is critical that the Competition Commission of India (CCI) examine the issue of monopolistic trade practices vis-a-vis this deal.
It is argued that Walmart and other retail giants will generate employment, but of what kind? Walmart has a long history of busting trade unions, violating the right to collective bargaining, paying poverty wages and disregarding social security laws. In e-commerce, work will also be outsourced to couriers and other service providers, making it a long stretch to prove that they are workers. Further, even if Walmart and Amazon employ a few thousand more, they are unlikely to neutralise the massive employment loss associated with the collapse of both the formal and informal retail sector. In this business model, whether in retail or in so-called ‘aggregators’ such as Uber, the giant corporations provide temporary benefits to consumers, and hence appearing to be on their side, by squeezing everybody in between including small producers and the vast majority of workers in the supply chain.
Digitalisation will soon be central to a wide range of economic activities, many of these being controlled by MNCs. A sovereign nation must be able to regulate e-commerce companies, making them comply with policies that uphold public interest, and ensuring that all economic actors get their fair share. This will be next to impossible with giant corporations operating from abroad and storing all their data overseas. There is an urgent need to reverse the entry of foreign e-commerce companies and their take-over of Indian entities, and to evolve effective regulations to govern the operations of domestic entities and protect the interests of the different players involved.
Digital companies such as Google and Facebook frequently refuse government or court orders for content take-down asserting that their data, algorithms and platforms operate from the US, and are subject to the latter’s laws. It will not be very different for data and Artificial Intelligence powering e-commerce platforms. This is what makes it extremely difficult to nationally regulate global digital companies, including e-commerce ones, and the reason that digital platforms in key sectors, including on-line retail, should be domestically owned.
After trailing behind India in software technologies till a decade back, China is now a global leader in digital technologies. China has been able to leverage its growing software capability because it has incubated domestically-owned digital e-commerce systems such as Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, which also store their data locally.
The Government is seemingly blind to, or does not care about, the extra-ordinary dangers that the country would face if India’s e-commerce ecosystems are foreign-owned and controlled. Not just China, but the US and EU have also begun to disallow foreign takeovers of digital companies considered of strategic or economic importance. If the growing tendency of foreign control of digital platforms in key sectors is not resisted and reversed, India runs the danger of what has been called digital colonization.
Citizens of India should be deeply concerned about the ongoing developments in the e-commerce and especially the online retail space, the latest of which is the Walmart-Flipkart deal. We the undersigned, call for an urgent national debate on this important issue of economic independence and digital sovereignty, affecting the interests of many millions of Indians in different walks of life from workers to farmers, small shopkeepers and suppliers, manufacturers and traders, and a host of service providers, apart from potentially compromising consumption data of hundreds of millions of Indians.
Pending a national debate involving all the affected constituencies, and an informed collective decision based on it, we further demand that the Government of India halts Walmart’s takeover of Flipkart, upholds the policy of restricting FDI in multi-brand retail, and draws up a policy in consonance with this for online retail. We also seek a comprehensive policy on leveraging the strategic value of India’s data for the interest of India and her people, and on domestic ownership and regulation of digital platforms in key sectors.
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Copy of Article from the Guardian available here.
Photograph: James Arthur Allen for the Guardian
It is a warm, sunny Saturday lunchtime in the centre of Bristol. Somewhere else in the country a royal wedding is about to take place, but here a group of two dozen demonstrators in red T-shirts are heading into TSB, armed with a list of demands. “Private renting isn’t fun,” they sing, “when you’re paying for a slum. Stop it happening to you, better join the Acorn crew. Housing is a human right, won’t give up without a fight”.
The organisation behind the good-natured protest is a trade union for renters called Acorn, first set up in Bristol four years ago. Since then, as frustration and anger about the housing market – and particularly the conditions for private renters – has grown, the group has gradually spread around the country, with branches springing up in cities including Brighton and Sheffield. Anny Cullum, an activist and NHS administrator, says that until she got involved in Acorn, “there didn’t seem to be anything similar in the community. The way to ensure you have your right to a proper, decent and dignified way of living is for ordinary people to band together.”
Acorn frequently works through direct action: members organise protests in their spare time, taking photos on their mobile phones and sharing them on social media with the aim of embarrassing their targets into agreeing to their demands – forcing landlords to repair mouldy properties or stopping evictions they consider unjust. They have targeted TSB because the bank has clauses in its buy-to-let mortgages that forbid landlords from renting to people on benefits, to asylum seekers, and in some circumstances to students. But on the night before the protest, having notified the bank of their intention to demonstrate, TSB relents; an email is sent to Acorn indicating the bank will change its terms and conditions so that buy-to-let mortgage holders can rent to people on benefits.
“This is a massive win,” Cullum says, using a megaphone to address the assembled protesters. “If we weren’t here today, we wouldn’t be finding out about this, this wouldn’t be happening.” (Although the group is quick to argue that the other prohibitions ought to change too.) For its part, TSB confirms the policy change in an email; the bank says it has been reviewing this “for some time”, but the timing of its concession does not seem coincidental.
In April, a group of Acorn protesters in Bristol prevented a court-appointed bailiff from evicting Sally Andrews and her three children from a property owned by Ernest Arathoon, a former director of Bristol City. Andrews complained about the property’s disrepair after moving in a year ago – there were problems with the gas and damp. Arathoon said she was behind on her rent, and the property had only fallen into disrepair after she moved in. Acorn argued that the eviction was illegal anyway, because the tenant had not received the documents she should have done when she moved in, including gas safety and energy performance certificates. The landlord said Acorn had got its facts wrong.
“A lot of us showed up – about 30 of us,” says Ajmal Miah, an Acorn activist and student at the University of the West of England. “There was a community of people standing up for this tenant.”
Acorn wasn’t initially set up to focus on housing issues. Nick Ballard, one of the group’s founders, was trained as an organiser as part of David Cameron’s Big Society initiative. “We wanted to start a union in the community,” he says, and when he and other founders set up a public meeting to establish what Acorn should focus on, “housing and tenants’ rights were clearly the number one issues”. Bristol council’s own research, published in 2017, shows that private rented housing is becoming more and more common, accounting for 29% of all housing in the city, up from 24% in 2011 and 12% in 2001. At the same time, very little council housing is being built and there is a council waiting list of 11,000.
There is persistent frustration among Acorn members about private landlords who supply poor quality housing; Ballard recalls an early battle on behalf of a woman who had been living with “extreme levels of damp, fist-sized mushrooms growing on the walls of her bedroom”. Acorn members picketed a letting agency and the landlord’s business. Ultimately, the campaign apparently forced the landlord to pay for thousands of pounds worth of damp proofing at the woman’s house.
In recent years, rents in Bristol have been soaring, fuelled in part by a buoyant local economy, and also by Londoners, priced out of the capital, moving west. Louie Herbert, an Acorn organiser, says that in the five and a half years he has lived in Bristol, rooms that cost around £250 a month, in the Easton area, are now going for £400-500. This inner city neighbourhood was once multicultural and working class, but Herbert says he has had to move out: “I can’t afford to live in that area any more.”
Median Rents have gone up by 43% in the city since 2011, according to Valuation Office data as analysed by the BBC, and bidding wars for rental properties are not unusual. “A shared house that is put on for, say, £750 a month can easily end up going for £800,” says Cullum. Some locals are moving on to nearby towns such as Chippenham, where they can afford a property. Few believe they will ever be able to buy a property without help from their parents. Bristol property specialists JLL says a typical two bedroom apartment costs £280,000, having risen £20,000 during 2017 alone.
Students in the city have their own set of related concerns. Bristol Cut the Rent is a sister group to Acorn, and its members are frustrated by the price and quality of housing in a city with two expanding universities, Bristol and the University of the West of England. Bristol University student numbers were 17,100 in 2004-5; in 2017-18 they were 25,024. Nic Hamer, a second year who studies English, says: “I struggled to pay my rent in my first year and it was £107 per week – pretty much the cheapest you could pay”.
Hamer says students who can afford it are pushed to live in “big towers in the city centre run by companies like Unite” (which provides a significant proportion of the UK’s student accommodation). The cheapest rooms available are £150 a week, and rents can rise by 4–5% a year. Only the wealthiest students can afford to live in these rooms, which Hamer says is “gentrification in its purest form”. What frustrates her in particular is a belief that universities are incentivised to take on ever more students paying £9,000 a year in tuition fees, while ignoring the wider impact on the local renting economy. “They are using students to bankroll their finances,” she says. “Expansion of the university means they can take more units of nine grand in.”
After four years of successful campaigning, Acorn is now recognised by the city council as a voice for private renters. There is wide sympathy in the union for the local authority, particularly since the election of Labour’s Marvin Rees as mayor of Bristol in 2016. While there are repeated complaints that there is not enough social housing, there is also an acceptance that the council’s ability to build is constrained by central government. But that didn’t stop Acorn from opposing a clumsy attempt last year to end a council tax exemption for some of the city’s poorest households. “We were only asking councillors to stick to their manifesto,” says Aidan Cassidy, a former Bristol University student who now works for the local energy supplier, Bristol Energy.
There are two tiers of Acorn backers: there are around 500 paying members in Bristol. There is no specific fee, although people are asked to contribute one hour’s pay per month and the website suggests £8, £10 or £15 as possible sums. On top of that there are around 7,500 supporters: those who sign up for the mailing list and could be willing to turn up if needed. With some external support, it is enough to pay for a handful of organisers, and Acorn hopes to boost its presence around the country.
Ask Acorn members what frustrates them most about the housing market, and they tend to reply that the system seems increasingly rigged against them. There is too much damp, too much hassle, and economic interests are conspiring to ensure rents keep rising. Sasha Sadjady, a civil servant and one of Acorn’s founder members, says she got involved because renting was “incredibly precarious … places are snapped up in 24 hours. Landlords want to know all sorts of information about you. Then, when you are in the house, you only have six months’ security. Such is the precarity, you are never ever able to feel comfortable in what should be your own home.”
Sadjady says what annoys her the most about the housing market is a lack of understanding of the underlying economic forces at work – indicating what sort of longer term politics may emerge from a group like Acorn. “Sometimes it annoys me when you say it amounts to problems with certain landlords. There is always an antagonism there, because they are making a profit out of something that should be your right.”
LES HABITANTS DU QUARTIER MAKEPE MISSOKE REDONNENT VIE AU FORAGE A SEC PAR DES MISES EN SCENE : ILS DENONCENT LE MANQUE D’ACCES A L’EAU POTABLE
Yesterday Hamilton ACORN members held their Real People (NOT ACTORS!) for Rent Control rally outside of Doug Ford’s rally for a “Better Ontario”. ACORN gathered to bring attention to the PC Leader’s pro-landlord and anti-rent control track record, as well as recent comments that his party will be sticking with the status quo. The rally was lead by ACORN’s two chapter chairs Mike Wood and new leader Leslie Blackburn.
For a party that says it is for the people, ACORN knows real people want real rent control. The status quo has done nothing to stop rents from increasing at unaffordable rates.
ACORN was joined by allies including the Hamilton and District Labour Council which made up a crowd of around 50 people. The main slogan “real people – Not Actors! – want real rent control” was a hard jab at the Doug Ford campaign who infamously got caught paying actors less than minimum wage to appear at his rallies.
Press:
https://www.thespec.com/news-story/8629214-doug-ford-swings-through-hamilton/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/doug-ford-rally-1.4676940
ACORN est une fédération internationale d’organisations dont le but est d’organiser les participations citoyennes. De Paris à Detroit, en passant par Detroit ou encore Londres, découvrez les différentes campagnes de notre fédération !
ACORN is an international federation of community based organizations working to organize the unorganized. From Paris to Detroit, not forgetting Montreal or London, let us discover the different campaigns of the members of our federation!
A Saint-Martin d’Hères, les locataires s’organisent contre le froid et l’humidité dans leurs logements
Mercredi 2 mai, les habitants de Renaudie se sont réunis autour d’un atelier banderoles. Leur objectif : dénoncer le froid et l’humidité dans leurs logements.
Après avoir accroché leurs banderoles dans les endroits les plus visibles du quartier, les habitants attendent une réaction de leur bailleur social. A cette occasion, le député Colas Roy est venu à leur rencontre pour discuter des problèmes existants dans le quartier.
In Saint-Martin d’Hères, the tenants organize against the cold and the humidity in their housing
On Wednesday, May 2nd, the inhabitants of Renaudie met around a banners workshop. Their goal: denounce the cold and the humidity in their housing.
Having hung on their banners in the most visible places of the district, the inhabitants wait for a reaction of their social landlord. On this occasion, deputy Colas Roy went to meet them and to discuss existing problems in the district.
A Aubervilliers, colère des locataires : réparez l’ascenseur social !
Jeudi 26 avril, les locataires de l’immeuble République – Lénine se sont rassemblés dans le hall de leur immeuble pour dénoncer les pannes et défaillances régulières des ascenseurs qui leur rendent la vie impossible. Ils ont pu discuter avec tous les voisins et faire signer massivement la pétition. Tant que leur bailleur social, l’OPHLM, ne prend pas ses responsabilités, les habitants n’ont pas fini de monter dans les tours !
In Aubervilliers, anger of the tenants: repair the social ladder!
On Thursday, April 26th, the tenants of the building “Republic – Lenin” gathered in the hall of their building to denounce the breakdowns and the regular failures of the elevators which complicate everybody’s life. They talked with all the neighbors and collected names on petitions. As long as their social landlord, the OPHLM, does not face up to its responsibilities, the inhabitants will express their dissatisfaction.
Les habitants du quartier de Makepe Missoke obtiennent le changement des poteaux électriques dangereux !
Face aux poteaux électriques en mauvais état sur le point de tomber, et aux câbles trainant sur le sol,
les membres de OnEstEnsemble de l’antenne de Missoke se sont mobilisés. Adoptant à la lettre les consignes de l’entreprise indiquant de s’éloigner des câbles qui tombent au sol, ils ont quitté leur quartier pour aller se réfugier à l’agence Enéo. Près de 20 habitants ont ainsi occupé les bureaux de l’entreprise, avec leurs couvertures et oreillers, demandant de sécuriser ces infrastructures électriques. La direction a réagit tout de suite, les recevant pour négocier. Ils ont obtenu le changement de 60 poteaux dans le quartier, et les câbles ont été réinstallés !
The inhabitants of the neighbourhood Makepe Missoke obtain the change of the dangerous electric poles!
Because of electric poles about to fall, and of cables being lying on the ground, the members of OnEstEnsemble of Missoke have been mobilizing. Adopting literally the instructions of the company Enéo, indicating going away from cables which fall on the ground, they left their district to take refuge inside the office Enéo. About 20 inhabitants occupied the office of the company, with their blankets and pillows, asking to secure these electric infrastructures. The manager has reacts at once, receiving them to negotiate. They obtained the change of 60 posts in the district, and cables were reinstalled!
A la nouvelle Orléans, les victoires s’enchaînent
Les membres d’ACORN continue de mener leurs trois campagnes pincipales, relatives aux discriminations, qui concernent plusieurs quartiers et en particulier le 9ème Ward :
– L’arrêt de l’expansion du Canal Industriel
– la lutte contre l’autoroute en Floride
– l’arrêt des explosions le long du Canal Industriel et du fleuve Mississippi.
In New Orleans, the members of ACORN continue to win
Continue to win on 3 major Environmental Racism Campaigns affecting multiple neighborhoods,esp the 9th Ward
Au Royaume-Uni, lancement d’alliances dans de nouveaux quartiers
Notre équipe basée à Bristol, Newcastle et Sheffield a commencé à organiser de nouveaux quartiers pour augmenter la densité et la diversité dans nos villes et développer les infrastructures nécessaires. Nous avons des actions prévues pour l’été, notamment des actions directes pour mettre en évidence les politiques bancaires discriminatoires, (à l’occasion de l’anniversaire des 10 ans de la crise financière mondiale), en plus de l’organisation d’une conférence nationale.
In UK, new neighbourhood organising drives
Our staff in Bristol, Newcastle and Sheffield have all begun new neighbourhood organising drives to increase density and diversity in our key cities and to develop the infrastructure needed to take us to the next level. We’ve got big plans for the summer including direct action to highlight discriminatory bank policies and mark the 10-year anniversary of the global financial crisis, plus our national conference.
Toronto : les habitants s’unissent contre la gentrification de leur quartier
Le 24 mars, plusieurs dizaines de membres d’ACORN Toronto se sont réunis dans Weston pour s’opposer à la gentrification du quartier. Suite aux récents aménagements du quartier, les prix des loyers sont devenus trop chers pour les résidents. Selon la présidente d’ACORN Weston, Carla Scott, “Nous voulons que ce lieu soit développé. Nous aussi, voulons vivre dans un quartier agréable. Nous ne voulons pas juste être déplacés.”
Toronto: the inhabitants mobilized against the gentrification of their neighbourhood
On March 24, dozens of Toronto ACORN members rallied in Weston to oppose gentrification in the neighbourhood. New developments proposed for the area are priced too high for local residents. Weston ACORN chair Carla Scott said, “We want the place to become developed. We want to live in a nice area as well. We just don’t want to be displaced.”
VICTOIRE: Les membres d’Ottawa font avancer le Conseil dans la bonne direction contre les prêts sur salaire
Depuis 2015, les membres d’ACORN Ottawa ont fait pression en faveur de l’attribution d’une licence pour les “prêteurs sur salaire” afin de réduire la concentration de prêteurs dans les quartiers. Aujourd’hui, en présence de 17 membres d’ACORN, le Conseil municipal a voté pour que le personnel établisse un rapport sur la nécessité de ces règlements. Une première étape pour mettre fin aux prêts prédateurs dans les quartiers !
VICTORY: Ottawa Members Move Council in the Right Direction Against Payday Loans
Ottawa ACORN members have been pushing for minimum distancing and licensing of payday lenders since 2015 in order to reduce the concentration of payday lenders in our neighbourhoods. Today City Council voted in favour of having staff report back on the need for these regulations with 17 ACORN members in attendance to show our support. Great first steps to ending predatory lending in our neighbourhoods!
Les locataires de la Nouvelle Ecosse demande des logements salubres
Les membres d’ACORN Nouvelle-Écosse et les locataires du 15 Kennedy Drive se sont rassemblés devant leur immeuble pour dénoncer leurs conditions de vie que leur propriétaire, MetCap living, leur impose. Entre les ascenseurs en pannes, les toits qui fuient et les cafards, les locataires en ont marre et demandent que des inspections et des réparations soient menées efficacement.
Dartmouth Members Demand Healthy Homes
Nova Scotia ACORN members and tenants of 15 Kennedy Drive rallied together in front of their building to fight against the scary living conditions that their landlord, MetCap Living, has forced them to live with. From broken elevators to leaky roofs and cockroaches, tenants are fed up and are demanding that proper inspections and repairs be done efficiently.
Les membres Sud-Ouest ACORN se réunissent pour marquer le démarrage de leur comité de quartier
23 leaders d’ACORN Montréal se sont réunis pour élire le président de leur comité de quartier. Michel Jobin, membre ACORN depuis Octobre 2017, a été élu au poste.
Les membres réclament une solution immédiate aux problèmes de punaises de lit, de coquerelles, et de souris, et demandent à ce que les familles et les individus ayant du jeter des meubles soient remboursées par le gouvernement.
Sud-Ouest ACORN Officially Launches as Latest Chapter
23 Montreal ACORN leaders came together last night to elect a Chairperson for the recently-established Sud-Ouest Chapter. Michel Jobin, a member since October of 2017, was elected to the position.
Members are demanding immediate action to rid the neighbourhood of bed bugs, cockroaches, and rodents, and reimbursements for all families and individual that have had to dispose of furniture as a result of pests.
Toronto : Monsieur le Ministre du Logement, nous voulons vivre dans une ville plus juste !
Les membres d’ACORN se félicitent de l’avancée du Ministre de l’Urbanisme et du Logement de l’Ontario, Peter Milczyn, sur les nouvelles régulations. Celles-ci sont la preuve que l’organisation des communautés fonctionne. Après un long combat pour le logement abordable mené par les membres ACORN, la municipalité les a écouté et met en place des outils pour favoriser un logement abordable.
Victory for Grassroots Organizing! ACORN Welcomes Ontario Housing Regulations
ACORN members are pleased to see the new regulations put forward by Ontario Minister of Housing, Peter Milczyn. These regulations are proof that grassroots organizing works. After a long and hard fight for affordable housing by ACORN and other allies, the Province has listened and are handing over the tools to create affordable housing to the municipalities.
Notre campagne actuelle : la mise en place de lois pour protéger les les vendeurs de rues
La campagne principale d’ACORN Delhi a abouti à la création d’une loi créée en 2018 par le gouvernement pour protéger les conditions de vie et de travail des vendeurs de rue. Actuellement, nous travaillons avec le gouvernement de Delhi pour constituer un commité rassemblant les vendeurs de rues de la ville. Dans les différents marchés, 12 groupes de marchands de rues ont été formés en 2017-18, et 1113 marchands rues sont maintenant adhérents. Ils sont informés de leurs droits et participent activement aux réunions.
Our constant advocacy: Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street vending
Our constant advocacy with Govt of Delhi resulted in notification of the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street vending) Rule 2018 of GNCT of Delhi. Presently, we are advocating with Govt. of NCT of Delhi for constituting Town Vending Committees (TVC).
In different markets 12 groups of street vendors have been formed in 2017-18 with a total membership of 1113 street vendors. They are made aware of their rights and are actively participating in the meeting of market level.
The Poor Peoples Campaign, une nouvelle campagne de sensibilisation
Les membres d’ACORN ont participé à une campagne nomée the Poor Peoples Campaign, qui a été lancée par Martin Luther King Jr il y a cinquante ans. Nous avons travaillé sur une campagne de sensibilisation au niveau local et national sur l’existence d’iinégalités dau sein de la population et de la nécessité de changer les décisions politiques qui affectent tant de personnes dans ce pays.
The Poor Peoples Campaign, a new campaign to raise awareness
The union has been involved with the Poor Peoples Campaign, which was first initiated by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr fifty years ago. We have been working to help raise awareness not only locally, but also nationally of the inequality of all people and why there has to be a change in many policies that affect so many people in this country.
Mumbai : un nouveau projet de recyclage
A Mumbai, les membres d’ACORN mènent un projet commun avec l’Université Bath Spa en Angleterre, qui forme nos collecteurs de déchêts sur la façon d’utiliser le recyclage de plastique pour faire des réalisations sur une machine 3D.
Mumbai : a project around plastic recycling
In Mumbai, members are doing a joint project with the Bath Spa University in England who are training our wastepickers with the Dharvi Prohject in how to use their plastic recycling to make things on a 3-D machine.
Pérou: non à privatisation de l’eau !
ACORN Pérou a rejoint notre partenaire, FENTAP, le syndicat des travailleurs de l’eau avec lequel nous nous sommes battu côte à côte pendant 15 ans dans le cadre de la lutte contre la privatisation de l’eau.
Peru: an anti-privitization protest
ACORN Peru joins our partner, FENTAP, the water weorkers union that we have fought with side by side for 15 years in an anti-privatization protest and the fundamental right to water.
La radio ACORN est en ligne
La radio ACORN est désormais disponible en ligne. Découvrez les émissions et reportages des membres affiliés d’ACORN partout dans le monde, depuis chez vous.
http://acornradio.org/
ACORN Radio is on-the-air
ACORN Radio is finally on the air. Discover programmes and reports of the affiliates of ACORN all around the world, from home.
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