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".
Rotterdam Rotterdam is an interesting and attractive city. Meeting with an old colleague and having dinner with her family, I walked several kilometers under a huge moon from the western district back towards the city centre and the harbor area, where we were staying at an inexpensive business hotel. There were long stretches of …
Amsterdam Sometimes coincidences are surprising and other times, it seems like fate. Adrien Roux and I had both of these reactions as we walked briskly from the ferry across from the central station in the rain to the offices of Red Amsterdam Nord, the Amsterdam North Network. We stopped in a grocery store to …
Manchester One of the best sessions at the recent meeting of ACORN International organizers and leaders was a plenary on the multinational efforts underway to create the ACORN Organizing School. The moderators were Eloise Maulet, with ReAct Transnational and the Alliance Citoyenne / ACORN France, David Thompson, ACORN International’s …