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 After three straight days of meetings, first an exciting one-day long training workshop with frontline leaders and activists in the Gulf Coast facing climate change and its threats, and then two intense days of staff meetings, you could have wrung me out like an old dishrag. I was beat. Luckily, as …
Little Rock Sometimes, I’m on top of the news and other times, the news seems to be on top of me. The Affiliated Media Foundation Movement (AM/FM) worked with a lot of partners and made many new friends as we assisted local communities in filing for low-power FM radio stations recently when the FCC …
Nairobi After we heard reports from all the ACORN affiliates in Africa in this first ever of its kind meeting in Nairobi, the discussions kept getting more and more interesting. Part of what was so exciting was the integration of our radio affiliates in Uganda with radioacorn.org and in Nairobi with Koch-Fm in Korogocho. Some …