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".
Mumbai In Delhi and Kolkata, I sat through meetings that were ostensibly government certified food safety meetings for hawkers. Our affiliate, Janpahal, has been trained and certified to give these workshops about food safety. Many topics are covered including the temperatures to cook chicken and other items. Aprons, hair nets, and plastic gloves are …
Kolkata I first came to Kolkata with the Organizers’ Forum more than twenty years ago. Unlike the megacities of Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru, Kolkata seems largely unchanged so far, something like the old India. The streets were full and pulsating as we came into town after midnight from the airport, which had seen an …
Bengaluru Picking up a copy of the Times of India, while waiting for ACORN’s Indian organizing directors for another session of our annual meetings, there were several articles on how Elon Musk and his Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) has supposedly uncovered a grant for $21 million from a division of the United States …