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".
Pearl River The Organizers’ Forum recently visited Bilbao in Spain. In making the agenda we had to deal with the fact that many people, especially in contemporary North American and perhaps globally only know the city culturally, because of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. To go one step farther, most only know the museum because …
New Orleans Even if we hadn’t just returned from visiting various organizations in Spain with the Organizers’ Forum, we would have been following the dramatic protests by thousands in Madrid who mobilized to turnback the eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her apartment. None of this solved the overall Spanish housing crisis and in …
Pearl River Over the last 25 years, the Organizers’ Forum has organized 23 delegations to visit even more countries that that number with the only break being for two years during the pandemic. We have only visited one country, Brazil, twice, on the eve of Lula da Silva’s and the Workers Party’s first victory, …