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".
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 …
Kampala In our last day of meetings, we wanted to make sure we had a way forward in Uganda, not only for potential organizing, but to begin the work with an initiative in community radio. The more we puzzled over the paths forward, choosing first one direction, and then another, and then both, we realized that …
Kampala Writing about community radio in Uganda could be very short, even if not sweet, story: there is none! At least, there is none in the way we might recognize such a concept in the US or even in African countries. Kenya has a fledgling network of small community radio stations in twenty-two different areas around the country, …