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 You would be surprised how often we debate the issues that revolve around “slum tourism” as these events have come to be called. Most acknowledge the role of the favela tours in Rio de Janeiro in developing the notion that there might be value in taking tourists to see poverty. It …
Bogota Columbia perhaps leads the world in supporting the organization of workers involved in handling solid waste under different names and hard conditions. The 13th annual "dia de recicladores" or day of the wastepicker or recycler was March 1st. This date coincided with the first international congress of wastepickers. ACORN was represented by Ercilia …
New Orleans Reports continue to pour in about the power of the Halla Bol, the loud noise, shout-out across the Indian sub-continent. In Kerala in southern India 150,000 people marched and shout down retail trade in protest. S. Babu of India FDI Watch in Bangalore also filed a report of significant activity there. First, …