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 Having been to one or two events at the Clinton Presidential Center over the years, I get their regular emails on events of one kind or another. Having recently read, Terry Brandon’s Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement, I was reminded how important the perspective of …
Pearl River I’m not sure whether work-life balance is still a thing? It probably is, but it’s not something that I think – or really know – much about. Recently, it came up in something I read, so I wondered what kind of balance I might find on a random day; yesterday for example. …
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 …