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WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".

Month: April 2008

KKPKP-Pune Waste Pickers Union

Ideas and Issues International Labor Organizing Personal Writings April 30, 2008 by wade

Pune There is a time, even in Mumbai, when the highway is not an obstacle to climb, and it turns out it is 7 AM in the morning. We sailed through the city. We were going to Pune for a meeting and coincidentally in setting up the session it turned out that the newly hired …

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Decentralized Industrialization

Ideas and Issues International Personal Writings April 29, 2008 by wade

Tara, Raigad District, State of Maharashtra     We ended up somewhere 60 or 70 kilometers south of Mumbai having made relatively good time in the lighter Sunday morning traffic. One of the members of the Yusuf Meherally Centre met us not far from Tara in order to make sure we found the compound and its …

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Our Hawkers Union Organizing Comittee

ACORN Ideas and Issues International Personal Writings April 28, 2008 by wade

Mumbai     The missing ingredient in all of the pieces of the India FDI Watch Campaign has been having an independent mass base that we could bring to the table to augment the strength of our alliance partners. We needed our own strike force for actions, and, just as in Delhi with the work among …

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