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".
New Orleans There’s a call on my calendar about getting ACORN up and running in Cleveland by organizing tenants there. One of the participants noted that it was a perfect way to celebrate Juneteenth. Indeed! Pairing the date with yesterday’s fifty-fourth anniversary of ACORN’s founding is also kind of special in its own way, …
Marble Falls Maybe it’s nostalgia or a memory defect, but it seems like there was a time, maybe in the 70s before Nixon, where fledgling organizations, grassroots, low-income, issue-responsive, or what some call frontline groups now, could relatively easily access legal advice and help. Legal services were actually federally funded. There were large and …
Miami, Oklahoma We were in the Arkansas Ozarks less than three hours drive from Miami, Oklahoma in Ottawa County in the northeastern part of that state, so it made sense to take the opportunity to visit with the Local Environmental Action Demanded (LEAD) Agency based there. L.E.A.D. Agency is one of the dozen or …