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".
Dallas Looking over at the television in between hockey playoff scores in Calgary before flying home in the predawn, a soundless commercial of some kind was playing. It was hard to figure out without sound, but it became clearer. The video was of three very clean-cut young people doing clean cut regular things. …
Rotterdam With a new ACORN affiliate, WUUNE, in Brussels and emerging organizations where we have fraternal relations in Wallonia, the French-speaking sector of the country, it made sense to take advantage of the train going through the central station on my route from Paris to Rotterdam. I managed to catch several hours with Arnaud …
Paris We were on the move around the world this April Saturday, whether in countless cities across America in opposition to Trump and the many outrages of his new administration, or in other cities, like Paris, where I joined ACORN affiliate, Justice Ensemble, to protest and make demands around pesticides poisoning land and …