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".
San Francisco One of the major, underestimated values of consistent work by community organizations is the pure and simple importance of persistence. When I got the text from my son via his Apple news alert, I contained myself until I found the confirmation in the Washington Post. It was true, after more than …
Pearl River Paddling a canoe on a bayou regularly, year in, year out, one season after another, some might think is boring, but they would be wrong. There will be more ducks some years than others, and they will breed and nest in different places along the bayous. Some years there will be alligators …
Philadelphia Another Saturday and it’s another training day with community-based organizations and members of the Anthropocene Alliance with ACORN. Groups came from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Maryland, so there were numerous perspectives on social and environmental issues. We were meeting in the old ACORN building on Broad Street. Decades ago, we used …