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".
Nairobi The ACORN Kenya leaders in Korogocho were set to have a planning meeting in the chief’s compound there. Traffic had been fairly smooth. The leaders wandered into the compound in ones and twos, and soon we were ready to begin. I had been here several times over the last fourteen years since …
Nairobi I’m glad I’m not a handicapper trying to make the final call on the direction of US politics these days, because we’re almost in the tea leaves and astrology space in trying to sort out where we stand over the coming months. For all the headlines, doom casting, and hand wringing, the polls …
Nairobi In this work, sometimes you’re making the news, and sometimes following the news. After months of planning a four-week intensive ACORN training program for our organizers in Nigeria, Uganda, and Kenya in Nairobi, we find ourselves dodging the news all around us, as our time has inadvertently aligned with mass protests against Kenya’s President …