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 Randy Shaw, director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco, and a longtime colleague and observer of community and political organizing, shared with me his recent column in Beyond Chron. I’m forwarding it on, not just because it mentions ACORN, but more pointedly because Randy issues a call to action that …
Rotterdam My last night in Paris I had an assignment. There was a seminar being moderated by a longtime ally and friend of the organization in France, and, arguably, the expert on community organizing in the country and much of Europe, Julien Talpin. The Justice Ensemble’s Adrien Roux had to get back to Lyon …
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 …