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".
Little Rock In Delhi, I spent an hour or so talking to a veteran union leader and organizer, formerly a member of the executive in the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) talking about the effort to organize one of the many warehouses Amazon was running in East Delhi in Uttar Pradesh in the capital …
Frankfurt ACORN affiliates in both Delhi and Mumbai are among the 70 organizations in the Working Peoples’ Coalition, so on our weekly calls, I’ve often heard them mentioned and was curious about their work, so I’d lobbied for a meeting with them to be put on our schedule for Mumbai before I left. I …
Mumbai Laxmi, the longtime ACORN leader in Dharavi was pointing out various areas on the redevelopment map of the area, including where she lived and had finally been able to prove title to make the relocation threshold. I knew Laxmi. I had been sitting in the back of a large meeting she held in Dharavi …