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 Fifty-five is old, there’s no two ways about it. ACORN celebrated its 55th birthday on June 18th, having been founded in 1970 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Now, with almost 300,000 members among lower income communities and lower waged workplaces in more than 15 countries, like people that age, the organization has …
Toronto In recent years, ACORN has held regular meetings for several days among the directors of all the major affiliates, spending more than the equivalent of $400,000 USD annually. The meetings have traditionally had two major themes. Within a far-flung global federation, these sessions allow for coordination on common events, sharing on campaigns, and …
Toronto Listening to the ACORN Canada leadership at their annual general meeting discussing current and future organizational campaigns, some of the most animated discussion concerned some of the oldest ACORN issues, both in Canada over the last twenty years and ACORN over the last fifty: rising electricity bills and continuing issues with banking practices. …