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 No Kings Day, only short months after an earlier event in June, was scheduled in more than 2500 towns and cities across the United States. Reports indicate there may have been over 7-million participants. As Jamelle Bouie writes in the Times, Republicans went crazy over people exercising their constitutional right to assemble, …
Bristol After eleven years of organizing in England and Wales, ACORN was holding its first formal convention in Bristol. More than 200 people poured into the Malcolm X Community Center to start the meeting, as the officers opened the session mid-morning. People were excited, and so were we. I had arrived late the …
New Orleans Randy Shaw, director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco, and a longtime colleague and observer of community and political organizing, shared with me his recent column in Beyond Chron. I’m forwarding it on, not just because it mentions ACORN, but more pointedly because Randy issues a call to action that …