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".
Birmingham, England Good times in Edinburgh! I was reminded that I had been in Scotland since the pandemic, having joined our members in Glasgow in 2022 at COP26 there in the cold and rain, but I had not been in Edinburgh for some time. Before coming, I had reached out to two of …
Edinburgh It had been a minute since I had been in Edinburgh, I don’t think since the pandemic for sure. It made sense to visit now on my way to Birmingham later in the week to attend the biennial conference of ACORN in England and Wales in coming days, because our international staff and …
New Orleans The explosive growth of data centers due to the big tech overlords racing each other to spend trillions is starting to run into a wall, despite what I’m sure they thought was a good plan to hijack local governments in a pact at “mum’s the word” secrecy with the promise of …