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".
Toronto At the ACORN Canada head organizers’ meeting there were deep dives into issues, campaigns, staff development, training methodology, grant prospects, and more. All of this was exciting. Reports on meetings the federal government’s housing and justice ministers and their staffs requested with us, when usually it has been the other way around, often …
Delhi We had met Vijay Sehrawat in Katmandu when he turned up at one of our sessions. Briefly, he told us he was with an organization called Youth for Climate India. He had opened up a map of India on his phone, showing what I thought were groups across the country. He was …
Montreal Twenty of the ACORN Canada organizers gathered for the annual Year End/ Year Begin meeting. Brought low by a bad post-Kenya cold, I missed the first evening’s reports from all the offices, but I didn’t have any trouble catching up, as I listened to the panels, workshops, and reports by various organizers of …