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".
Marble Falls June 18th is ACORN Founders Day. On the staff, you could either take your birthday or Founders Day as a holiday, if you had had to work a holiday during the year. Fifty-six years is a long time since ACORN began in Little Rock, Arkansas, and now with 300,000 members works …
Ottawa The real business of the convention is on Saturday. Members from the host city come pouring into the hall. Delegations line up and chant there way into the building. The convention t-shirts are everywhere, saying “Protect Our Homes.” The morning speakers were led by Alejandro Ruiz-Vargez, chairing her first convention, though she …
Ottawa One of the highlights of the ACORN Canada conventions every two years is the Member Speakout. In the US, this was also one of my favorites. There, like in Canada, the leaders moderate the event, often in the US with the staff scurrying about in preparation for other events. In Canada, it comes …