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 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 …
Pearl River While posting a blog to Facebook on what we have called “maximum eligible participation” in a riff on the old War on Poverty line about “maximum feasible participation” of the poor, I found myself calling for a “mass enrollment campaign.” I of course in my excitement mistyped that exhortation as “pass enrollment …