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 Globally, more than 30 cities participated in ACORN’s Beat the Heat Day this summer. Thermometers are clear, regardless of climate naysayers, it’s hotter outside than it has ever been. Tenants need protection and many have joined ACORN campaigns in various countries like Canada and France to demand retrofits to deal with …
Charleroi Hardly more than an hour from Brussels is another side of Belgium in Charleroi. This was the coal-mining, industrial center of Belgium. Over the last fifty or more years, the mines shut down. Perhaps one steel mill is left in operation, but the long, hulking buildings and giant smokestacks can be seen …
Brussels It’s Tuesday, it must be Brussels in this endless six-country road trip over the last month, not counting time in the Adirondacks on upstate New York. This time it’s with my colleague Craig Robbins, ACORN’s field coordinator, who also flew overnight; he from Philly and me from Dulles. We’re here to work with …