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".
Marble Falls Recently in workshops ACORN has done with the Anthropocene Alliance in New Orleans and Atlanta with more coming soon in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Port Arthur, Texas, we have used a campaign exercise for the small groups about flooding. Many of the participants come from frontline groups that know …
Shepley The Anthropocene Alliance is an interesting and increasingly important amalgamation of what a lot of observers now called frontline groups. Many of these organizations came together to deal with environmental crises: flooding, fires, hurricanes, tornados, and more. We’re working closely with the organization and some of their groups over coming years as …
New Orleans Having a big insurance company, like State Farm, pack up and leave the state is old news in Louisiana. Big companies, little companies, medium-sized companies come and go all the time here. Nonetheless, when State Farm, the largest insurer in California, the most populous of the states in the US and …