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".
Sacramento Hitting New Orleans for less than 24 hours and then off to California, forces a sort of homeless, stateless sense to begin to settle in. Some things seem to be moving to align everywhere, while others are breaking away. Let me share some examples: According the UK Guardian, the reaction to paying bonuses in the …
Nairobi On my last day of this Nairobi trip I was honored to be the guest of a fascinating organization that I have written about before over the years, COPA-K — Community Organizing Practitioners Association of Kenya. This is that rarity in the world — a professional association of organizers. There are about 80 members. They …
Nairobi There are hardly better days that I have had as an organizer than the ones I have spent looking at the “turf” in a new city to decide, as best one can with four decades of experience, where we should start organizing new chapters. In the past I had fallen in love with the potential …