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 Working with a newly emerging coalition of membership-based groups, Arkansas Grassroots United, that was organized by the Anthropocene Alliance and ACORN, their first public event, coinciding with the global Beat the Heat Day on July 23rd , is a sign-on letter to federal political officials and the president. Maybe that’s something you …
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, …