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".
New Orleans I may be a techno-peasant, but I at least like to keep up. That’s not to say, that I’ve tried any of the artificial intelligence or AI things that are out there, but I’m what you might call AI-adjacent, in the weird, but common parlance popular these days. My daughter showed …
New Orleans It is hard to type the words, Zach is dead. None of us live forever, but somehow, I still thought Zach Polett would be with me until the end, just as he had worked with me in one way or another for over fifty years. His letter asking for a job is …
Stoney Lake, Ontario The ACORN Canada organizers spent a lot of time on their agenda discussing various strategies to implement retrofits by our members in Eco-Tenant Unions organizing and pressuring landlords to get the job done. In the discussion, a common complaint surfaced. Where the tenants paid the water utility, called hydro in …