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".
San Leandro, CA ACORN’s responsibility to the Anthropocene Alliance, and its vast network of over 350 groups now, is to work with some fifteen or so groups in ten areas. After six regional trainings with over 100 people from almost as many groups, we narrowed down the list and are now in the process …
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 …
Marble Falls Anthropocene is one of those hard words to get your mouth wrapped around at first, as you have flashbacks to high school science classes, but it’s one we’re all going learn to say, happily or not. In short, it’s the name for our epoch, when humans rule the world, arguably without much …