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 It’s hard to talk about the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, because every day over the last week seems to bring more news of the devastation, particularly for people who had every reason to believe the last thing they had to worry about in these inland and often hilly places was hurricane damage. Living …
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 …
Northern Ontario Before dawn, I slipped a canoe into the inlet at Stoney Lake in northern Ontario, where the staff of ACORN Canada was meeting for training and planning sessions. Most of the supermoon was above me, and the dawn was gradually breaking in the east as I paddled back, having flushed several Canadian …