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".
Calgary The ACORN Canada board meeting and annual general meeting had gone smoothly. The members were happy. We were staying in the conference center at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) on the top floor. Sometimes it was clear enough to see the outline of the mountains on the horizon. Most were sleeping …
Calgary Just to get the facts straight, one of the ACORN Canada board members from Halifax quipped, “The Canadian province of Alberta has NOT asked to be admitted to the United States as the 51st state, but if they did, the rest of us would let them go!” There’s a story here for sure …
Calgary I first heard about Clement Pettijean, a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, when I got a notice of a dialogue between him and Alex Han, the new editor of In These Times. I know Alex from his time years ago as an organizer for Local 880 SEIU, our old ULU sister organization. …