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".
Miami, Oklahoma ACORN is working with the Anthropocene Alliance to build State Organizing Committees, that can bring together groups in solidarity and collective action to tackle issues that might be larger than an individual group or might need to find common cause in order to make progress, power, and change. A2’s new field director, …
Marble Falls Recently, I talked to Professor Sara Bronin with the Regional and Local Planning Department at Cornell University about a project she is organizing called the Zoning Atlas. She told me there were 30,000 zoning jurisdictions in the United States, and the objective of the atlas is to collect them all and …
New Orleans I’m a fan of Zeynep Tufekci, a professor specializing in studying social movements and more recently a sometimes columnist for the New York Times. Regularly, she has been spot-on in her analysis of the real factors behind movements. She doesn’t worship at the throne of social media as a substitute for …