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 Let me assure you that ACORN is not ambulance chasing. We did a Beat the Heat Campaign in 2025 with a global day of action. This year, we set July 15th for ACORN’s Beat the Heat Day of Action months ago. Obviously, we suspected it would be warm. It is summer after …
Pearl River Weeks away from our global Beat the Heat Day, so-called heat domes in Europe recently and huge sections of the Midwest and northeast United States and Canada make it hard not to find ourselves in discussions about air conditioning. Going down dark holes on social media sites, it’s been interesting to see …
Marble Falls It’s hot here, but across the pond, the heat is new and different for our affiliates there. One of our organizers was delayed on a train to Scotland, because the tracks were so hot, it slowed all of them down. In France, reports indicate that the country may have experienced iis …