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".
Katmandu Initially, the World Social Forum was touted as the antidote to the Davos, Switzerland lollapalooza of the corporates and rich. Meetings in Brazil were huge, chaotic, and for a while a must for many social movements. Largely on hiatus in recent years as attendance plummeted in the Mexico edition of the WSF and …
New Orleans After three straight days of meetings, first an exciting one-day long training workshop with frontline leaders and activists in the Gulf Coast facing climate change and its threats, and then two intense days of staff meetings, you could have wrung me out like an old dishrag. I was beat. Luckily, as …
Pearl River None of us knew what to expect in the first of five regional trainings the ACORN Organizing School was conducting for leaders and activists of the Anthropocene Alliance. Twenty-five people from twenty different organizations in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas gathered at the New Orleans Healing Center for an introduction to community organizing …