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".
Philadelphia Like a bad penny, the same question popped up again in the crowd of forty activists and organizers in Philly, just as it had in Easthampton and Cambridge, Massachusetts. People understood that home visits and door knocking are fundamental to the ACORN, but everywhere people are asking if it’s really safe to …
Boston I’ve been here before. A friend reminded me that my last visit was perhaps five years ago; pre-pandemic, as we now say. Massachusetts is no stranger to me, even before my last stop. My professional organizing began in Springfield in western Massachusetts and then in Boston and around the state before I …
New Orleans Working with Dollar Store Workers United and a study that ACORN and its partners at Georgia State University completed and will release soon, I monitor Dollar General, Family Dollar, and Dollar Tree (which owns Family Dollar) somewhat closely, so of course I read the obituary recently on the passing of Family Dollar’s …