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".
New Orleans The Organizers’ Forum spent most of our time in Taipei, so it is hard to generalize about the whole country, but in the largest city we can be a bit surer about our observations. We were impressed with the infrastructure, especially when it came to transportation systems. All transportation was very inexpensive, …
New Orleans Tamsui is virtually at the end of the line for the vaunted trains of Taiwan to the north of the island, but still hardly an hour outside of Taipei. Nonetheless, the Organizers Forum jumped at the chance to get out of town, if that’s what it took to meet with Audrey Tang, …
Taipei In order to get a sense of the issues that Taiwan is facing as the climate changes, we met with two groups: the Green Citizens Action Alliance and the Taiwan Climate Action Network. The GCCA is an older organization at more than twenty years. One of their major campaigns dating to their …