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".
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 …
Leeds The highlight of my day in Leeds was accompanying Dave Aldwinkle, one of ACORN’s national organizers in England, along with the Leeds Branch Chair, Branch Secretary, and Branch Membership Officer, to an anti-eviction planning meeting. Aleksandra and Arkadiusz, were originally from Poland, but had been living in the flat for 13 years …