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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09132019..mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsTunis The Organizer’s Forum delegation, coming from Canada, the United States, Italy, France, Kenya, and Cameroon, began the morning, appropriately, with a briefing on the developments in Tunisia since the Arab Spring. A large Organizers’ Forum delegation had visited Egypt within the first year of the …
Dallas Sometimes if you can’t be good at least hope you’re lucky. Once we were on the ground in Paraguay, we were hustling to fill up the dance card of our agenda with meetings. We had heard the name of a group that was called Techo that was involved in housing. Ok, sounds good, and …
Asuncion Our last day in Asuncion was typical of those for past Organizing Forum delegations. We were only in-country for a week, and now, as our clock wound down and the airlines were calling. we had discovered other groups, neighborhoods and projects that we would have loved to visit and meet, but only learned about …