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 On June 16th Community Organizations International (formerly ACORN International) embarked on our first “global action” as protesting the excessive and predatory costs of remittances and demanding reform. There was great excitement as the reports – and especially the pictures and news reports – came in first from Delhi and then Mumbai where demands …
New Orleans The International Labor Organization declares today the Day of the War against Child Labor. I posted pictures from the BBC website of child workers from India, thinking about the waste pickers we are organizing there. This was on my mind because Judith Francorsi, an Australian journalist now living in Mumbai, asked me about …
Chicago The board of the Organizers’ Forum set aside an entire day for what turned out to be a fascinating dialogue on leadership development and training for community and labor organizations. There were a host of challenges, but in sharing the practices of various networks including DART, WORC, PICO, ACORN Canada, Acorn International, SEIU, and …