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 One of my favorite pictures in my office has always been one taken at the anniversary celebrations in Little Rock that coincided with a meeting of the national board, likely in the late 1980s. It’s a picture of the first four presidents of ACORN: Steve McDonald, Larry Rogers, Elena Hanggi, and Mildred …
Marin City I had met Terrie Harris-Green, the Executive Director of Marin City Climate Resilience and Health Justice once before in Oakland at an ACORN–Anthropocene Alliance training. Coincidentally, her organization and My Eden Voice were both in attendance and both were working in unincorporated areas in their California counties, Marin in one case and …
San Leandro, CA ACORN’s responsibility to the Anthropocene Alliance, and its vast network of over 350 groups now, is to work with some fifteen or so groups in ten areas. After six regional trainings with over 100 people from almost as many groups, we narrowed down the list and are now in the process …