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.”
Just say, “Delhi” on the PayPal memo.
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10102019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans ACORN India’s Dharavi Project has long focused on recycling in the Mumbai mega-slum where we work. Organizing young waste pickers has led us to create a cooperative of sorts employing scores of recyclers. ACORN has struck deals with many schools, including the French and …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10072019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsDoha All Saturday and Sunday, the ACORN India team and I kept the conversations going as we continued to make progress. We debated adding a website. We dug deep on accessing our community radio access through AM/FM and acornradio.org with commitments made to produce weekly shows …