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 In the trainings that ACORN did in six different cities in partnership with groups from the Anthropocene Alliance, one part of the session was a campaign planning exercise. We would break participants into small groups and give them a topic. In the beginning we started out with flooding, which yielded lots of discussion, but …
Heerlen I didn’t watch the debate, On a seven-hour time difference, I was on a radio board meeting at midnight and turned off the light at 1AM. Truth to tell, I wouldn’t have watched them even if I had been home. Debates are not my thing. I find them unpleasant. The old warning applies, especially …
Heerlen Late June, most schools are out, summer is here, and maybe for many there’s a minute to take a breath and smell the roses. One rock in the road of such relief and peace of mind at this time of year, especially these days, is that the reconfigured, hyper-conservative US Supreme Court casts …