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".
Recife I was confused, but that’s not uncommon when an Organizers’ Forum delegation is on foreign soil and lost in another language. Trying to sort out the address for our meeting with CUT, the Brazilian labor federation, and some of its members, I worried that I had gotten the wrong address for the …
Salvador It had been a good, productive week in Brazil. The meetings had come together. The delegation had gelled well. Some had early flights to Salvador and on to Sao Paulo, well others were leaving from Recife in the afternoon. We had heard that our friends at MST now had some kind of store or …
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 …