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 …
Delhi We climbed onto the first Delhi Metro train at Nehru Place and after three more train transfers on this fairly amazing and new subway system, we had reached the very end of the line in Mundka in the Delhi suburbs. I wanted to see what Kaveri Gill in Of Poverty and Plastic had called …