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 Gaining context for organizing in Heerlen Nord, we of course walked through kilometers of the neighborhood with more to come, but I also heard and watched a presentation on the history of the Limburg region and Heerlen as a central part of the Parkstad area. The timer clicked through various occupation periods from …
Heerlen Waking up in southeastern Netherlands, the temperature was 55 degrees Fahrenheit, almost 30 degrees cooler than the predawn when I had walked my dog in New Orleans before flying over for meetings in Heerlen. My computer keeps New Orleans readings, so there were red splotches flashing over 100 when I got off the …
Heerlen There are two pictures in the news that we will see for years, perhaps for decades. One is Donald Trump’s glowering mugshot as he was booked at Georgia’s Fulton County Jail. The other is Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s Wagner paramilitary mercenary group, in full camo warrior pose in Africa days before …