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".
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 …
Paris We were on the move around the world this April Saturday, whether in countless cities across America in opposition to Trump and the many outrages of his new administration, or in other cities, like Paris, where I joined ACORN affiliate, Justice Ensemble, to protest and make demands around pesticides poisoning land and …
Shepley, Yorkshire Fifty organizers from France, Canada, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the United States came together in Yorkshire, England for our annual ACORN International organizers’ meeting for this year. Another bunch from Kenya, Australia, Liberia, Uganda, India, and Cameroon joined at different times via Zoom, along with other leaders and organizers from France, …