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".
New Orleans Vinod Shetty shared a link to a local news report from Mumbai recently that the Adani Group was putting up a billion of its own money to start their redevelopment work in Dharavi, the megaslum where ACORN has worked for the last more than 15 years. The report was a bit …
Atlanta Marva Burnett, ACORN International’s president, John Anderson, ACORN Canada’s field director, and I gave each other one last wave, as they hurried off to Terminal 1 in Manchester, and I began the hike to Terminal 2 with hours to spare. It turned out to be a good thing, because when the Virgin Atlantic …
Shepley Every year ACORN’s international organizers and some of our leaders come together in person in the late fall somewhere in Europe or the United Kingdom for that lot, as they say in England, and in the United States for the North American crew early in each new year, usually in the greater New …