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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

Leaders, Structure, and Membership Dues, Oh, Boy!

ACORN Anthropocene Tenants October 2, 2024 by Chief Organizer

            San Leandro, CA        ACORN’s responsibility to the Anthropocene Alliance, and its vast network of over 350 groups now, is to work with some fifteen or so groups in ten areas.  After six regional trainings with over 100 people from almost as many groups, we narrowed down the list and are now in the process …

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Beat the Heat Campaign

ACORN International Canada Climate Change Housing Tenants September 20, 2024 by Chief Organizer

            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 …

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“Union at Home” – Tenants and Collective Bargaining

ACORN International NLRB Tenants Unions May 31, 2024June 2, 2024 by Chief Organizer

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 …

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