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".
Heerlen Big leap forward for ACORN and organizing, if I could be so bold as to say so, as organizers and allies came together in two great meetings in Heerlen. The first was in a surprising venue, as the ACORN Organizing School took its show on the road in the Netherlands. We were meeting in …
Heerlen Heerlen, Netherlands is a city of 90,000 in a 250,000-metro area now in the southeast piece of the country midway between the Belgium and German borders in a stretch of the country hardly sixty kilometers wide. The town was built on top of coal deposits at a time when coal was king …