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".
Pearl River Blockades are usually pretty serious business. Of course, there are a number of varieties. As Russia encircles Ukraine or when ships block ports in war, that’s brinkmanship that could lead down a bloody path. Another variety is becoming a more common tactic it seems for some groups. That intrigues me, but I …
Edinburgh Edinburgh Escaping most of the headlines of the Glasgow COP26 gathering of the tribes in a parade demanding more immediate climate change was much of any report on the police escapades. The on-line edition of the New York Times only had these few words hanging in the story: : In Glasgow there was …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10202020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans It’s small world. Marva Burnett, the president of ACORN Canada and ACORN International, visited several cities in Nigeria last year with her church group. She met a young man named Edem Etido in Port Harcourt, a large city much farther southwest from Lagos, the …