{"id":2,"date":"2013-03-15T15:21:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2013-03-22T02:12:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T02:12:44","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India FDI Watch is building awareness and facilitating grassroots action to prevent the take-over of India&#8217;s retail sector by corporations. We are building Joint Action Committees (JAC) led by those who will be most affected, mainly; trade associations, unions, hawkers organizations, farmers groups and small scale industries.\u00a0India FDI Watch is an affiliate of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acorninternational.org\">ACORN International<\/a> and works hand in hand with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acorninternational.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=category&amp;layout=blog&amp;id=18&amp;Itemid=5\">ACORN India<\/a> in organizing lower wage informal workers and communities in Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<p>A National Steering Committee has formed in Delhi, of which India FDI Watch is a facilitator and member. The National Steering Committee has come under the banner Vyapaar Rozgaar Bachao Andolan. Similarly in Mumbai, India FDI Watch is a chair and member of the Vyapaar Rozgaar Suraksha Kriti Samiti. In Bangalore, India FDI Watch is a key member and coordinator of the Karnataka Joint Acton Committee Against Corporate Retail.<\/p>\n<p>The National Steering Committee is working with partners across the country and the Joint Action Committees, based in Mumbai and Bangalore to facilitate broad-based action at the local and national level and to develop policy demands that will ensure the protection or enhancement of those people who stand to be most impacted.<\/p>\n<p>India FDI Watch has been key in coordinating and organizing national actions and rallies organized around to save local retail operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India FDI Watch is building awareness and facilitating grassroots action to prevent the take-over of India&#8217;s retail sector by corporations. We are building Joint Action Committees (JAC) led by those who will be most affected, mainly; trade associations, unions, hawkers organizations, farmers groups and small scale industries.\u00a0India FDI Watch is an affiliate of ACORN International &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/?page_id=2\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiafdiwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}