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 Well, isn’t this interesting. President Trump on his single-minded mission towards autocracy suddenly found out that there are limits. Of course, the message he ended up hearing was not the howls of pain from American citizens and countries around the world as he drove the global economy into recession in his ill-advised and …
Rotterdam With a new ACORN affiliate, WUUNE, in Brussels and emerging organizations where we have fraternal relations in Wallonia, the French-speaking sector of the country, it made sense to take advantage of the train going through the central station on my route from Paris to Rotterdam. I managed to catch several hours with Arnaud …
Rotterdam My last night in Paris I had an assignment. There was a seminar being moderated by a longtime ally and friend of the organization in France, and, arguably, the expert on community organizing in the country and much of Europe, Julien Talpin. The Justice Ensemble’s Adrien Roux had to get back to Lyon …