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".
New Orleans People talk about swag as just something to maybe make an extra couple of bucks, if they are lucky. Or, perhaps to build solidarity in an action where everyone is given a button or a t-shirt to make sure it is unmistakable for the target to ignore who is in the …
Philadelphia Another Saturday and it’s another training day with community-based organizations and members of the Anthropocene Alliance with ACORN. Groups came from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Maryland, so there were numerous perspectives on social and environmental issues. We were meeting in the old ACORN building on Broad Street. Decades ago, we used …
Toronto At the ACORN Canada head organizers’ meeting there were deep dives into issues, campaigns, staff development, training methodology, grant prospects, and more. All of this was exciting. Reports on meetings the federal government’s housing and justice ministers and their staffs requested with us, when usually it has been the other way around, often …