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".
Birmingham, England Good times in Edinburgh! I was reminded that I had been in Scotland since the pandemic, having joined our members in Glasgow in 2022 at COP26 there in the cold and rain, but I had not been in Edinburgh for some time. Before coming, I had reached out to two of …
New Orleans I made a smart decision to attend a workshop of renters’ rights in the United Kingdom at the ACORN England and Wales first convention in Bristol. I knew we had been a key part of a housing reform coalition and built strong alliances to get something through parliament under the new …
Bristol After eleven years of organizing in England and Wales, ACORN was holding its first formal convention in Bristol. More than 200 people poured into the Malcolm X Community Center to start the meeting, as the officers opened the session mid-morning. People were excited, and so were we. I had arrived late the …