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".
Paris I met with three of the primary leaders of the Alliance Citoyenne, ACORN’s affiliate in France, in their church basement office in Aubervilliers, the low-and-moderate income suburb of Paris. These women were not only leaders of their local chapter, but on the national board and in one case a co-chair of the national organization. Did we talk …
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 When you subscribe to Sciencemagazine, you expect to be able to try and keep up a bit with new discoveries at the frontier of experimentation and exploration. If you’re like me, you hope to be able to sit at the back of the classroom, keep quiet, and learn something about things …