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".
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 …
Marble Falls New Orleanians aren’t too happy joining the rest of the country in talking about the heat, while recording record temperatures along with the others. The standard line in the city has always been, “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” This summer it seems to be both, but it’s August and …
Marble Falls Everyone everywhere talks about the weather, but in the current global heatwave it’s topic number one in many places. The number of reports about heat are rising faster than the numbers on most thermometers. The eight highest annual temperatures since records have been kept are in the last eight years, for …