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".
Heerlen Big leap forward for ACORN and organizing, if I could be so bold as to say so, as organizers and allies came together in two great meetings in Heerlen. The first was in a surprising venue, as the ACORN Organizing School took its show on the road in the Netherlands. We were meeting in …
Heerlen After being hit on the head with a 2-by-4, it’s usual to be a little wobbling and to have some trouble getting up off the floor. If you don’t personally know the feeling, then you’ve seen it in enough action movies to get a sense of what it would be like. The recent election …
Heerlen This is going to be interesting. From the looks of the early pronouncements from the new imperial government about potential appointments, it appears there are actually two criteria for President-elect Trump’s choices. The first is absolute fealty. The second is a commitment to work to undermine the department of the government that they will …