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".
Catania Working with the Catania University team of professors, instructors, post-docs, and PhD candidates, the dog-and-pony show about ACORN was done, the walking tour of San Berillo had been checked off, and the presentation and Q&A with interested people from their activist trainings and study groups had been completed as well, so it was …
Catania San Berillo proper, we might say, is a historic district near the city center of Catania, the second-largest city in Sicily. The narrow alleys and unique, but too often deteriorated and hardly habitable housing structures, all tell stories of life, history, and the culture of the community. Now as I walked for several …
Catania If there is one thing about the climate fight that has become certain, it is that business and governmental leaders are not going to move quickly, unless they feel the heat coming up from the grassroots. Talking recently on Wade’s World to climate warriors in Birmingham, Alabama, and Jackson, Mississippi, it is clear …