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".
Marin City I had met Terrie Harris-Green, the Executive Director of Marin City Climate Resilience and Health Justice once before in Oakland at an ACORN–Anthropocene Alliance training. Coincidentally, her organization and My Eden Voice were both in attendance and both were working in unincorporated areas in their California counties, Marin in one case and …
New Orleans SLAPP or Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation lawsuits are not a new corporate tactic to stop various campaigns, nonprofits, advocacy groups, and membership organizations from exercising their right and duty to protest against adverse corporate practices and developments. Such suits have been filed in the United States for decades at this point. …
Taipei We were on the hunt for union and labor activists in Taiwan. I remembered that some twenty years ago, plus or minus, either a labor federation or someone had invited and financed a visit from an ACORN representative with our Living Wage Center to come to the island to help spark the …