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".
Caruaru What’s the line people always say, “the book was better than the movie,” or vice versa? Well, we were well prepared for our meetings with representatives of the great Brazilian social movement, known popularly as MST, or the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rujrais sem Terra. I had read the book, the classic by Penn …
Salvador The Organizers’ Forum delegation had learned a lot in our meetings with informal workers unions and cooperatives as well as our hike through the in-city forest, but we wanted to see a side of Salvador away from the breaking waves of the ocean, and the ships in the bay under the care of …
Recife The itinerary said “meeting with GMM” and that there would be various groups to meet with the Organizers’ Forum delegation in the late afternoon. We left in plenty of time, but we got an education in transportation planning in this outer neighborhood of Recife. For almost fifteen minutes we were all parked in …