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".
New Orleans We agreed to do a series of two-hour Zoom training sessions on community organizing for a coalition of grassroots frontline groups dealing with climate impacts from toxics to flooding to sea rise and storm preparation. The last session was on campaigns, and the groups and organizers who had been participating were …
Pearl River I was sold on the camp after I walked to the edge of the acres past the house and stepped onto the peer, traversing the marsh for 75 feet until reaching the wooden dock on the bayou. The property’s acreage was on both sides of the bayou, with even more marsh to …
Queens, New York Bellarose is a small community of hardly 2000 folks at the border of New York City’s Queens Borough and Long Island’s Hempstead County. During World War II it was also next door to Mitchel Field, an Army Air Force training center during the war, named after a former mayor New York …