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".
Delhi The last workshop we led in Katmandu at the World Social Forum focused on housing rights. Judy Duncan from ACORN Canada detailed the long and successful campaign to win landlord licensing in Toronto and the resources for inspections and fines to give it sharp teeth. Emma Saunders from ACORN’s affiliate in Scotland, …
Katmandu Our team ran three workshops, two of which involved workers, either platform or gig workers or informal workers. We learned a lot about what was happening in Nepal and Bangladesh in these sectors, and we were able to share what we were learning from our own work in India and elsewhere. Hawker associations …
Katmandu Initially, the World Social Forum was touted as the antidote to the Davos, Switzerland lollapalooza of the corporates and rich. Meetings in Brazil were huge, chaotic, and for a while a must for many social movements. Largely on hiatus in recent years as attendance plummeted in the Mexico edition of the WSF and …