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".
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 …
Katmandu Our team ran three workshops, two of which involved workers, either platform or gig workers or informal workers. We learned a lot about what was happening in Nepal and Bangladesh in these sectors, and we were able to share what we were learning from our own work in India and elsewhere. Hawker associations …
New Orleans I don’t drink Starbucks coffee, unless I have to do so, like being stuck in an airport or something. It’s neither fair trade nor do they serve my New Orleans favorite coffee-and-chicory. It always tastes a little burned, even to what’s left of my taste buds. There’s one around the corner …