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".
Cleveland As privacy equity and deep pockets buy up tranches of housing throughout the country and endless LLCs hide the ownership of tens of thousands of housing units where tenants are organizing to demand accountability a huge obstacle is often finding a target to address the issues responsibly when the ownership is God knows …
New Orleans Just plain luck found me in a series of meetings in California’s East Bay in Oakland and Berkeley at the same time there was a special one-night showing of American Agitator about Fred Ross and to some degree his son, Fred Ross, Jr. I was excited to go and convinced Charles …
Berkeley This may not have been on the top of your list, but when organizers, young or old, get together informally to catch up and have a cup of coffee, you might wonder what they talk about? Maybe not? They talk about organizing. Who is doing it? Who isn’t? What’s the same? What’s different? …