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 I first came to Delhi with a group of some twenty organizers, activists, and others almost twenty years ago with the Organizers’ Forum on only our second international dialogue. It was late at night. There were two forever long lines for passport checks before harried agents. It took quite a while. There was …
Marble Falls – After eight years, I have finally booked passage to India in a bit over three weeks, landing in Delhi and departing ten days later from Mumbai. Working with the ACORN India organizers, we are already filling up the schedule with meetings, planning, and a strategy session for two days to map out the …
New Orleans – I’ve booked my tickets to India in about one month, not having been there for almost eight years due to visa problems. I follow the country closely, given ACORN’s more than 50,000 members there in some of the world’s largest cities. I wonder what I’ll find in the country that Prime Minister …