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".
Pearl River Recently in a meeting of ACORN organizers from Canada and the United States, our solidarity guests two organizers we had worked with throughout the year, including a month of training for one in Toronto. They had been applying the ACORN organizing model to build something called the Philadelphia Lot Tenders Union. Talking …
Pearl River Here’s a treat, as well as a bit of déjà vu. Here in the age of Mamdani in New York City and the many years that ACORN alone and via the Working Families Party was in the middle of elections in the city, I stumbled onto an ACORN forbearer with a similar …
Pearl River Progressive Maryland is an interesting organization, as I’ve learned over recent years. It’s statewide, working in Baltimore, Salisbury, and in and around Prince George and Montgomery County, the huge central counties of Washington, DC’s suburbs with their large, diverse populations. I learned a lot more talking to Larry …