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’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 …
Nairobi In this work, sometimes you’re making the news, and sometimes following the news. After months of planning a four-week intensive ACORN training program for our organizers in Nigeria, Uganda, and Kenya in Nairobi, we find ourselves dodging the news all around us, as our time has inadvertently aligned with mass protests against Kenya’s President …
Pearl River As the Gaza conflict extends past nine months, people of good will continue to knit their brows and pull their hair, imagining what it might take to end the conflict and stop the bloodletting both now and in the future. The largest Israeli protests in months occurred recently demanding a cease fire, release …