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".
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 …
Sheffield All of the branches of ACORN in the United Kingdom have an annual general meeting in October. By chance, both ACORN India’s Dharmendra Kumar and I were in Sheffield and were invited to the AGM and jumped at the chance to see a local in action. By total coincidence, this would be the …