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".
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 …
New Orleans When some people talk about the “Golden Triangle” they are referring to places in Asia, often where people are growing and exporting their drugs of choice. Along the US Gulf Coast, some of us think about how the local promoters and chambers of commerce used the term to refer to the …
New Orleans We visited with an old comrade from the earliest days of ACORN between 1970-73. She had been one of the first VISTA volunteers that I was able to repurpose as organizers on our first organizing drives. She reminded me that she had also opened up the Fort Smith office and launched …