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".
Ottawa Having founded ACORN in Little Rock, Arkansas forty-one years ago today, it is hard not to reflect on how fortunate I have been to be a part of ACORN in one form or another all of those years, first as Chief Organizer of ACORN in the United States for thirty-eight years and now adding …
Lima In a bold experiment at the ACORN International staff meeting we tried to schedule and link our far flung offices together via free Skype connections to be able to hear reports from India and Kenya and introduce staff and leaders to each other. As the expression goes in Spanish it was mas a minos! …
Mumbai I had left Delhi listening to reports of the heat wave there as we pushed forward with our meetings. Over 41 C which seems to have been around 106 degrees Fahrenheit. I knew we were hot, but I thought that was the fire lit by the passion of the meeting. Regardless, it was a …