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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".

Category: Community Organizations International

Chaos of Contradictions Everywhere in Commonwealth Games

Community Organizations International International September 26, 2010September 26, 2010 by wade

Ho Chi Minh City The name of the deputy director of the Indian organizing committee is Lalit Bhanot.  His aside to the Indian press corps as he tried to do damage control for the disaster has created a national controversy in India, and from the page of the New York Times should lead to uproar …

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Commonwealth Games Death Watch

Community Organizations International International September 23, 2010 by wade

Chicago As we pack to leave for Vietnam and another great Organizers’ Forum dialogue and then to India, the Commonwealth Games is on a death watch.  New Zealand, Scotland, and the Welsh put the games on alert.  Canada, which is crucial to the games and has been silently allowing all of the displacement to go …

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Commonwealth Games – Sheets & Toilets

Community Organizations International International September 22, 2010 by wade

New Orleans In Delhi 250,000 of our slum dwellers have been displaced in order to allow the Delhi Municipal Corporation and India to preen before the dozens of countries coming to the Commonwealth Games being hosted in the country for the first time.  Tens of thousands of our bicycle rickshaw pullers and other informal workers …

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