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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".

Category: Tenants

Transparency for Tenants

Arkansas Tenants Unions June 28, 2025June 29, 2025 by Chief Organizer

            Little Rock       Northwest Arkansas is a curious contradiction.  Fifty years ago, it was an outlier in the state.  Sure, the big university was in Fayetteville up there, but to get there meant leaving the interstate near Fort Smith and hoping you weren’t caught on the pig trails going north behind an 18-wheeler with feathers …

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Barcelona Tenants Are Organizing Under Stress

Housing Tenants May 1, 2025 by Chief Organizer

            Pearl River      Over the last couple of years in talking to ACORN organizers in the UK and Europe, I’ve often heard tidbits about tenants organizing with some strength and success in Barcelona, Spain.  In Brussels last month, I barely missed meeting one of the leaders and organizers of the tenants’ union there, when it …

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Ownership Transparency Matters

Corporations Tenants January 11, 2025January 13, 2025 by Chief Organizer

            Pearl River       We started getting notices from a CPA who advises us on some matters in late 2024 about whether in our family of organizations there were the kinds of companies that would need to be ready and able to file ownership reports under the new Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) by January 1st, …

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