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".
Barcelona In the first meeting of this year’s Organizers’ Forum delegation, we met David Karavala, one of the leaders and spokespeople for an organization called World Against Racism and Fascism in the back room of a bar near the city center. Over two hours, we not only learned about his organization, but in doing …
Catania While the Organizers’ Forum was in Bucharest and Sofia, everyone talked about politics, but it was hard to get our arms around all of what we were hearing, despite in a rarity for our dialogues we had meetings with three journalists with experience in radio, print, and television, including in the public-state controlled …
Catania One of our last meetings was with Kalina Drenska, one of the LevFem collective. Like so many activists in Romania and Bulgaria, and, truth to tell, everywhere it seems these days when there is so little investment in building progressive capacity, Kalina wears multiple hats. In her “day job,” so to speak she …