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".
Oshawa Hundreds of members from across Canada will be arriving in full force, decked out in their ACORN best, today to the Canadian biennial convention. The slogan for this one is “Twenty for the Many,” celebrating two decades of growth and accomplishment in Canada. In a nice touch, it also harks back to the same …
Marble Falls ACORN in Canada, the UK, and Europe organizes tenants into tenant unions. As I learned chanting with our members in Glasgow some years ago, the “rent is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s!” For younger people this is an issue, because for many, if not most, the notion of owning a house seems financially out of …
Toronto At the ACORN Canada head organizers’ meeting there were deep dives into issues, campaigns, staff development, training methodology, grant prospects, and more. All of this was exciting. Reports on meetings the federal government’s housing and justice ministers and their staffs requested with us, when usually it has been the other way around, often …