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".
Delhi Getting back to Delhi, I was looking forward to catching up with the work ACORN has been doing with various groups of informal workers through our affiliate Janaphal. On my last visit, the progress in uniting our own hawkers’ unions and associations with other hawkers’ groups in different cities across the country had …
Chicago In the array of workshops, panels, and ballroom presentations there were some about organizing in the South, which has been the holy grail for the future of US unions ever since companies poured into the region to take advantage of cheap labor and abundant resources. Hearing what was on union activists’ minds made …
Pearl River My lifelong habit of reading the newspapers that stack up while I’m traveling persists, because I swear it pays dividends. Reading online can never capture everything that is in print, so I maintain the hard copy is a way to harvest what is easily missed otherwise. For all I know, some items …