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".
London One iron law of ACORN travel is, “when you’re ready, get going; you never know what might be ahead of you.” My plane from Amsterdam to London to reconnect with my roundtrip ticket home was close to 7AM on Monday morning, but it still made sense to catch an early train to the …
Heerlen In the trainings that ACORN did in six different cities in partnership with groups from the Anthropocene Alliance, one part of the session was a campaign planning exercise. We would break participants into small groups and give them a topic. In the beginning we started out with flooding, which yielded lots of discussion, but …
Heerlen I didn’t watch the debate, On a seven-hour time difference, I was on a radio board meeting at midnight and turned off the light at 1AM. Truth to tell, I wouldn’t have watched them even if I had been home. Debates are not my thing. I find them unpleasant. The old warning applies, especially …