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 In facing off against repression and standing firm against growing autocracy in one place or another, there’s a weird and powerful de facto alliance taking shape that’s worth learning more about: boomers and gen Z are at the frontlines. With the caveat that any survey that is more self-selected than random, …
Pearl River No Kings Day, only short months after an earlier event in June, was scheduled in more than 2500 towns and cities across the United States. Reports indicate there may have been over 7-million participants. As Jamelle Bouie writes in the Times, Republicans went crazy over people exercising their constitutional right to assemble, …
Bristol After eleven years of organizing in England and Wales, ACORN was holding its first formal convention in Bristol. More than 200 people poured into the Malcolm X Community Center to start the meeting, as the officers opened the session mid-morning. People were excited, and so were we. I had arrived late the …