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".
Stoney Lake, Ontario The agenda call for the annual meeting and training session for ACORN Canada organizers heralded Buckhorn 6.0. It turned out the number might have been accurate or might have been pulled out of the air, but it spoke to the fact that for six years or so, beginning at Lake …
Heerlen The National Programma Heerlen Nord is one of twenty large community and economic development projects established by the Netherlands government to change the conditions in targeted communities over a twenty to twenty-five year timeline. These are potentially large scale operations with lots of moving pieces, requiring a high level of consensus and …
Heerlen I was in Heerlen Nord, but it was déjà vu. If I closed my eyes, I would have thought I was once again in the Cesar Andreu Iglesias Garden in north Philadelphia a couple of months ago. About the same size, an area for a stage and music, a cooking facility, containers for …