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".
Delhi We had been crossing paths with the banking unions all week in Delhi. We had met a leader of the large, 230,000 member independent union from Mumbai at the UNI meeting. We had met the general officers and staff of AITUC, the union central with most of the members. We had …
Delhi UNI stands for Union Network International and is what institutional labor refers to as a “GUF” or global union federation. UNI was having its world executive council meeting at the Asoka Hotel in Delhi as well as the founding convention of UNICOME (India) where our campaign was represented, so we made a …
Stockholm I had already finished one interesting meeting with Svalorna Latinamerika, an NGO that worked only in Peru, Bolivia, and Nicaragua. I knew I was working my way down the chain when they started asking whether or not I had any ideas for how they could build capital for business schemes in Ariquippa, …