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Anti-sweatshop activitsts applauded a rare victory in union-organizing when factory workers and representatives of the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), a non-profit sweatshop watchdog group, testified to the “unprecendented” success of recent efforts to create an independent, democratic union in the Kukdong apparel plant in Mexico last Thursday...
...work. These are the innovators of the New Philanthropy: venture capitalists who use Wall Street solutions to tackle urban poverty and expect a return on their investment, a lawyer who nurtures businesses in developing countries, an Italian surgeon healing the most vulnerable victims of war, a Web watchdog who puts the financial reports of charities online. All of these people want their gifts to make a difference...
...flow of information from charity to donor. Concerned citizens had to wait eons for the IRS to supply a copy--or had to pester often unwilling nonprofits to disclose their activities. "Charities would leave off attachments or white out people's salaries," says Daniel Borochoff, president of charity watchdog American Institute of Philanthropy. "They can't get away with that anymore...
...hadn't had a sense of whether Caroline was being affected by fallout from the attack or not - until this morning. Caroline's our family's word watchdog. If the parents use "stupid" in any context, she'll bring us up short: "Daddy, we don't say 'stupid.'" I have to keep explaining to her that the "but" I just used in conversation is not the "butt" she's not supposed to use. Anyway, one of her least favorite words is "disaster." She knows its meaning because at some point in each of the Madeline books Miss Clavell...
...member Independent Review Board, which monitors the union for fraud. Hoffa, who gets to choose one board member, has opted for G.O.P.-friendly lawyer Joe DiGenova. The Administration picks the other, and the two members select the third. Hoffa's move is likely to appease skeptical Republicans if the watchdog group says the Teamsters are clean...