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".
Mumbai Off and on over the years, I’ve stayed at the Emerald on Juhu Beach in Mumbai, and for a couple of nights before our staff and board meetings this weekend, I am again. In my absence in recent years, they’ve had a bit of an upgrade in some areas. Internet now comes to the …
Delhi I first came to Delhi with a group of some twenty organizers, activists, and others almost twenty years ago with the Organizers’ Forum on only our second international dialogue. It was late at night. There were two forever long lines for passport checks before harried agents. It took quite a while. There was …
Marble Falls I can remember coming home from Boy Scout camping trips as a boy and falling asleep immediately at six o’clock at night and not waking up for twelve hours or so. Coming back recently from canoeing with my son, Chaco, it felt the same. I switched off the light at 8pm, which …