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".
Pearl River One of my favorite pictures in my office has always been one taken at the anniversary celebrations in Little Rock that coincided with a meeting of the national board, likely in the late 1980s. It’s a picture of the first four presidents of ACORN: Steve McDonald, Larry Rogers, Elena Hanggi, and Mildred …
San Francisco Some thirty veteran organizers and activists from labor unions, community organizations, philanthropy, and political work gathered in the Mission District of San Francisco to learn something about what ACORN is now at fifty-four in the United States and across the globe, compared to what it was at thirty-eight. This gathering was …
Shepley Every year ACORN’s international organizers and some of our leaders come together in person in the late fall somewhere in Europe or the United Kingdom for that lot, as they say in England, and in the United States for the North American crew early in each new year, usually in the greater New …