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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

Traveling to Machu Picchu after the Mudslides

Community Organizations International International May 18, 2010 by wade

Cusco The regular readers are going to pass this blog by and that’s far enough, but I’m going to lay out some travel tips as a public service of sorts for some of the 400,000 visitors to Machu Picchu, one of the wonder’s of the world by any reckoning, who happen to check the internet …

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Archbishop Romero in San Salvador Airport

Community Organizations International Ideas and Issues International May 13, 2010 by wade

Lima Sometimes there is real substance behind the symbols and that is the way I felt walking down the concourse in the semi-renovated San Salvador airport in El Salvador when suddenly we walked up a 5 feet tall by 10 or more feet long mural commemorating Archbishop Romero,the martyred face of repressive civil war that …

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Blue Frogs and National Geographic in Dharavi

Community Organizations International International April 14, 2010 by wade

Mumbai Inevitably one cycles back what what hears that is new back to what one knows that is old from your own experience. The more I kept looking at the poster for the bands from Norway and the United Kingdom playing for people in Dharavi in honor of ACORN’s work with recyclers there, I assumed …

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