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".
Marble Falls ACORN finished its third regional training in partnership with the Anthropocene Alliance in Cleveland. We had another great group representing more than a dozen organizations from not only Cleveland, but also Toledo, Youngstown, Bowling Green, and Milwaukee. Just as we found so far in New Orleans and Atlanta and are likely …
Marble Falls Recently in workshops ACORN has done with the Anthropocene Alliance in New Orleans and Atlanta with more coming soon in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Port Arthur, Texas, we have used a campaign exercise for the small groups about flooding. Many of the participants come from frontline groups that know …
Amsterdam Unbelievably, there are now organized teams of people working to suppress the vote, especially in battleground states, by convincing local election officials to needlessly, and illegally, purge voters from the roles. ACORN’s Voter Purge Project has monitored an increasing number of states since 2019, largely at the macro-level, looking for anomalies on large …