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".
London, Ontario Listening to the organizing reports at ACORN Canada’s Year End / Year Begin meeting, several themes were common, as one after another got up to describe their actions and progress during the year, and that was especially true for all of the offices in Ontario: Hamilton, Peel, London, Ottawa, and, of course, …
New Orleans ACORN had one-crew on the ground in metro Atlanta in the get-out-the-vote effort for the recent Senate election, recruited largely from Pennsylvania by longtime organizer and Pittsburgh activist and music aficionado, Maryellen Deckard. They were revisiting the turf we had hit two-years ago in the special runoff election to culminate the …
New Orleans Listening to ACORN members on their weekly conference calls during the pandemic, one of the hardest balancing acts centered on the rent freeze. Don’t get me wrong, the rental freeze was a good thing. People couldn’t work. There was more month than money. Tenants were already under pressure across the country …