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".
Heerlen Sometimes, it’s worth wondering, what were we thinking? Sure, it was the right time for our international organizers’ meeting. We had met two years in a row in the Yorkshire area of northern England. It was time for a change. The Netherlands made sense on some counts, so let’s go there. There would be …
Marble Falls Exhausted from a long drive, sitting next to mi companera for assistance, I set about trying to join Bluesky with mixed feelings. I’m not really a Twitter X guy. Yeah, in automation mode, ACORN’s comms guy shares the Chief Organizer’s Report on that platform, but at a personal level I dropped …