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".
San Francisco Last year the Organizers’ Forum marked more than 20 years by returning to Brazil, where we had inaugurated the Forum initially. We had grabbed the opportunity to have be there on the eve of Lula’s first election and then book ended with his return once for another term. This year we’re …
Newark Countries everywhere might have something to learn from Indonesia. Yes, you heard me. Indonesians know how to get the vote out, even if sometimes their politicians don’t serve them well. They make voting and election day a celebration and call it a “Pesta Demokrasi,” or Democracy Party. It works too. In the last …
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 …