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".
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 …
Mumbai There’s nothing easy about Zoom governance. One thing in its favor is that it’s better than nothing, and so it’s the chosen alternative when ACORN leaders assemble internationally for our spring meeting. We’ve gotten better at it. Backgrounds are muted more often. There’s less waving at the screens for speakers to turn on their …