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".
Bucharest We were on time to meet National Trade Union Bloc at 9am sharp on a Monday, until we found that there was some confusion, and they expected us not a 9, but 11am. We were apologetic, and they were graceful, so we recovered from our first misstep. The union had a PowerPoint presentation …
Bucharest For the twenty-third year, a delegation from the Organizers Forum made its way to Eastern Europe to meet with groups in Romania and Bulgaria over the coming week beginning in Bucharest. Appropriately, our first meeting was with the well-respected community training and support organization, CeRe and its director, Anda Serban, who despite …
Washington In the 1960s, citizen participation seemed to be coming to low-and-moderate income communities with President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. Maximum feasible participation was a baseline requirement for local community action programs. In CAPs, one-third of the seats had to come from the lower income constituency, ostensibly being served by the programs. …