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".
Boston I’ve been here before. A friend reminded me that my last visit was perhaps five years ago; pre-pandemic, as we now say. Massachusetts is no stranger to me, even before my last stop. My professional organizing began in Springfield in western Massachusetts and then in Boston and around the state before I …
Easthampton, MA There’s no better evidence that we live in different worlds than the experience of visiting with organizers and activists in western Massachusetts searching for ways to deal with community and tenant issues and staying with friends and hearing about the microaggressions and their impact on local and school politics, and then reading …
New Orleans The Conservative Party in the United Kingdom was trounced in recent local elections, losing 1000 seats, 500 to the Labour Party, 400 to the Liberal Democrats, and 200 to the Greens. Voters weren’t sure about much other than that they wanted to get rid of the Conservatives, who have clung onto …