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".
Pearl River It seems like it was from another time completely, but remember with me the extravaganza that Amazon manufactured in the competition between cities across the United States as locations for their second headquarters. Cities went crazy. Proposals of all kinds, deep with money and other incentives, went flying out of city halls …
Mumbai Being in Dharavi, where ACORN has worked for almost twenty years, and meeting with our members one day, and then the ACORN Women’s Waste Collective on another, the concerns about the impending redevelopment plan for this huge community of almost one-million residents and workplaces was palpable. The Adani Group somehow won this controversial …
Mumbai STRASCAS is the ACORN-affiliated union of sugar cane workers working in the plantations and processing facilities outside of Yaoundé in Cameroon. This isn’t an easy to story to follow, but it’s an important one that I’ve mentioned briefly before. Karina Bhatt, a reporter for the Caravel, a student paper at Georgetown University in …