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".
Bergerie de Villareaux It had been so long since ACORN International’s organizers from the various affiliates had been able to come together in a meeting that when they were all greeted by our host, our French affiliate, an extra year was added to the time marking the last reunion in July 2018, rather than 2019. It …
Edinburgh Edinburgh Escaping most of the headlines of the Glasgow COP26 gathering of the tribes in a parade demanding more immediate climate change was much of any report on the police escapades. The on-line edition of the New York Times only had these few words hanging in the story: : In Glasgow there was …
Glasgow The one-hundred so-called world leaders had their say at COP26 in Scotland, and now it was the time for voices from the rest of the world to have theirs, not in the sessions, but on the streets. Organizers were predicting that 100,000 would march under a unified banner demanding more effective and immediate action on …