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".
Salvador It had been a good, productive week in Brazil. The meetings had come together. The delegation had gelled well. Some had early flights to Salvador and on to Sao Paulo, well others were leaving from Recife in the afternoon. We had heard that our friends at MST now had some kind of store or …
Caruaru What’s the line people always say, “the book was better than the movie,” or vice versa? Well, we were well prepared for our meetings with representatives of the great Brazilian social movement, known popularly as MST, or the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rujrais sem Terra. I had read the book, the classic by Penn …
Salvador The Organizers’ Forum delegation had learned a lot in our meetings with informal workers unions and cooperatives as well as our hike through the in-city forest, but we wanted to see a side of Salvador away from the breaking waves of the ocean, and the ships in the bay under the care of …