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".
Northern Ontario Before dawn, I slipped a canoe into the inlet at Stoney Lake in northern Ontario, where the staff of ACORN Canada was meeting for training and planning sessions. Most of the supermoon was above me, and the dawn was gradually breaking in the east as I paddled back, having flushed several Canadian …
Marble Falls ACORN in Canada, the UK, and Europe organizes tenants into tenant unions. As I learned chanting with our members in Glasgow some years ago, the “rent is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s!” For younger people this is an issue, because for many, if not most, the notion of owning a house seems financially out of …
Stoney Lake, Ontario The ACORN Canada organizers spent a lot of time on their agenda discussing various strategies to implement retrofits by our members in Eco-Tenant Unions organizing and pressuring landlords to get the job done. In the discussion, a common complaint surfaced. Where the tenants paid the water utility, called hydro in …