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".
Mexico City Our utility bills are going up everywhere in the United States. We all have our theories, and some of them are right, at least partially. Is it pressure from data centers for more power as tech companies race forward in the competition over artificial intelligence? Yes. Is it subservient regulators and an …
New Orleans In the early and mid-1970s, ACORN and other citizen-based community organizations around the country were involved in one utility campaign after another with investor-owned companies. They were constantly asking for rate increases or were trying to build expensive, often coal-fired plants for speculated future demand. You name a state and a …
Toronto Listening to the ACORN Canada leadership at their annual general meeting discussing current and future organizational campaigns, some of the most animated discussion concerned some of the oldest ACORN issues, both in Canada over the last twenty years and ACORN over the last fifty: rising electricity bills and continuing issues with banking practices. …