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".
Marble Falls I’m on the record in Nuts and Bolts on stray dogs as a ubiquitous issue around the world for community organizers, along with garbage pickup and bad drainage. I argued that if we could build organizations that could campaign and win on these three issues, we could organize the world. All …
New Orleans Recently, we talked to an old comrade, Tom Sanzillo, who with his organization has helped provide the research and economic analysis that has gained increasing traction in the campaign to decrease burning coal, because it’s cheaper to use alternative sources. Most of us are clear that this is huge progress, not just …
Nairobi In this work, sometimes you’re making the news, and sometimes following the news. After months of planning a four-week intensive ACORN training program for our organizers in Nigeria, Uganda, and Kenya in Nairobi, we find ourselves dodging the news all around us, as our time has inadvertently aligned with mass protests against Kenya’s President …