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 The monthly ACORN Africa call had much to celebrate. Good news for the cane workers organizing in Cameroon. Encouraging assembly held in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Good action results reported from Liberia. A successful training session on our work in Democratic Republic of the Congo. And, finally, Radio ACORN is streaming on …
Brooklyn I’m talking to Ernie Dumas, a former editorial writer for the Arkansas Gazette, at a coffeehouse in Little Rock’s Heights neighborhood. A woman overhears us, disappears, and comes back and gives each of us a book of interviews she had done with ten African-American women in the Delta towns of Gould and Marvell, Arkansas. …
Calgary The ACORN Canada board meeting and annual general meeting had gone smoothly. The members were happy. We were staying in the conference center at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) on the top floor. Sometimes it was clear enough to see the outline of the mountains on the horizon. Most were sleeping …