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".
My advice to anyone stuck at home and bored is to think about how lucky you are to have food and shelter. While you’re bored, here’s my advice for a pick me up, and I’ll quote Dharmendra again,
“Kindly donate generously on ACORN International’s website to help us defeat hunger and defeat corona. All donations will go to feed migrants in India.”
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Pearl River Once upon a time, more than twenty years ago, when ACORN expanded internationally, we used to say it would not have been possible without email, cheaper plane fares, and Skype. We still have email, but plane fares are hardly cheap, even though they can still get us there when we need to …
Mumbai STRASCAS is the ACORN-affiliated union of sugar cane workers working in the plantations and processing facilities outside of Yaoundé in Cameroon. This isn’t an easy to story to follow, but it’s an important one that I’ve mentioned briefly before. Karina Bhatt, a reporter for the Caravel, a student paper at Georgetown University in …