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".
Lyon I was dragging wagon arriving in Lyon, France after an overnight flight from the USA, and then a train, all adding up to more than 24 hours of travel. Going down the escalator from the train platform, there was Adrien Roux, the head organizer of ACORN’s affiliate, the Alliance Citoyenne, now renamed Justice …
New Orleans All of a sudden ACORN’s Latin American WhatsApp group was blowing up. Honduras was reaching out to Peru with concern. Even with my rough reading of Spanish, I could tell there was big trouble. At first, I thought the unpopular president had been assassinated, but a closer reading and some Google …
Mumbai Being in Dharavi, where ACORN has worked for almost twenty years, and meeting with our members one day, and then the ACORN Women’s Waste Collective on another, the concerns about the impending redevelopment plan for this huge community of almost one-million residents and workplaces was palpable. The Adani Group somehow won this controversial …