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".
Heerlen Gaining context for organizing in Heerlen Nord, we of course walked through kilometers of the neighborhood with more to come, but I also heard and watched a presentation on the history of the Limburg region and Heerlen as a central part of the Parkstad area. The timer clicked through various occupation periods from …
Heerlen Waking up in southeastern Netherlands, the temperature was 55 degrees Fahrenheit, almost 30 degrees cooler than the predawn when I had walked my dog in New Orleans before flying over for meetings in Heerlen. My computer keeps New Orleans readings, so there were red splotches flashing over 100 when I got off the …
New Orleans We agreed to do a series of two-hour Zoom training sessions on community organizing for a coalition of grassroots frontline groups dealing with climate impacts from toxics to flooding to sea rise and storm preparation. The last session was on campaigns, and the groups and organizers who had been participating were …