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 The Los Angeles fires continue to rage, adding to their death and destruction. Thousands of houses have been ravished. More than 100,000 have now been rendered fire refugees searching for housing and their futures. The city and its people are desperate for relief. Many are moving to the rescue. Taylor Swift …
Pearl River Ok, I will make an exception and read a column about door knocking. In ACORN organizing, if there were a list of ten commandments, one of them near the top of the list would be “thou must door knock!” It works. It’s still the best of all political tools. And, as Jonathan Alter …
Miami, Oklahoma ACORN is working with the Anthropocene Alliance to build State Organizing Committees, that can bring together groups in solidarity and collective action to tackle issues that might be larger than an individual group or might need to find common cause in order to make progress, power, and change. A2’s new field director, …