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".
Oshawa An ACORN Convention would never be confused with some corporate or even big union affair. There’s an agenda, but nothing is scripted, and that’s especially true of the first night’s “speak out” when each office gives its report of wins and worries over the previous two years. It’s a zany affair with chants, whoops, …
Oshawa Hundreds of members from across Canada will be arriving in full force, decked out in their ACORN best, today to the Canadian biennial convention. The slogan for this one is “Twenty for the Many,” celebrating two decades of growth and accomplishment in Canada. In a nice touch, it also harks back to the same …
Marble Falls ACORN in Canada, the UK, and Europe organizes tenants into tenant unions. As I learned chanting with our members in Glasgow some years ago, the “rent is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s!” For younger people this is an issue, because for many, if not most, the notion of owning a house seems financially out of …