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".
Glasgow ACORN’s affiliate in Scotland is the Living Rent Union which has offices in both Edinburgh and Glasgow and branches and members elsewhere in this part of the United Kingdom. Walking to our office from the central train station, the national coordinator Emma Saunders warned me that their offices were near St. George’s Square …
New Orleans I’m starting November by jumping on a plane and heading overseas for seventeen days: going big and hoping to make it home. Traveling has not been for the faint of heart for quite a while, but now in the semi-maybe-post-pandemic openings for travel around the world, it’s a rat’s nest of complexity …
Pearl River Talking to Sydnee Blum, ACORN’s head organizer in eastern Canada on Wade’s World , she told a shocking story of a member in one of the neighborhoods who was paying rent of $1000 CN per month. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, landlords can only raise rent once per year. She got a notice of …