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".
Nairobi My last visit to our organizers in Kenya was a trip to Nairobi in 2018. The pandemic kept not ending from 2019 forward, so finally we are all trying to come together now five years later. If there are easy ways to travel to Nairobi, I haven’t found them. No US-based airline comes directly …
Marble Falls While some are tearing their hair about artificial intelligence, TikTok, video streaming, self-driving cars, and autonomous killer drones at the far reaches of the internet and tech world, it continues to be amazing how many of us are still struggling with the ever urgent need to bridge the digital divide for …
Marble Falls Despite long gone Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s efforts to privatize all social housing or council housing, as public housing is called in the United Kingdom, is still a critical source of housing for tens of thousands. Many of ACORN’s 11,000 members in Great Britian still live in council housing and over …