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 were meeting for hours with Ramona Williams of MCUP, Mississippi Citizens United for Prosperity in Jackson, Mississippi, and one of her leaders. We were all about the business and discussing how ACORN could work with MCUP, as a member of the Anthropocene Alliance, but it wasn’t just business on a …
New Orleans I wasn’t sure how I got on the mailing list for the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), but was good with it. A notice hit my in-mail that there was going to be a conversation with Ron Pollack, FRAC’s founder, triggered by the 50th anniversary of the WIC (Women and …
Heerlen Walking the neighborhoods to plot out the early organizing drives to build ACORN Netherlands beginning in Heerlen Noord never gets old. We started near the city center and then worked our way farther and farther north towards the castle. We had to drive from one patch to another at one point, because this …