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".
Little Rock Recently, President Trump in his usual stream of consciousness blurted out that he didn’t believe automobile exhaust caused air pollution. I hope he’s not back to blaming trees again. More frighteningly, a rumor circulated widely among the environmental cognoscenti, that the president was preparing an executive order that would declare groups working …
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, …
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 …