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".
May 19, 2021 New Orleans ACORN in India is once again shuffling our organizing plans around in order to meet the COVID crisis among our members, informal workers, and their communities. Once again, we are organizing dry food packets with weekly meals for thousands. Vaccines are in short supply and to get in line requires …
May 17, 2021 New Orleans One slogan indelibly fixed in my mind from my days organizing with the National Welfare Rights Organization were “Mas Dinero Ahora!” or “More Money Now!” It’s a wonderful surprise after so many dark nights for lower income families that “show me the money” and real talk about the value of …
May 14, 2021 New York City I’m not going to say that I’m unfamiliar with co-working spaces, although I will say that I have never taken them particularly seriously. I’ve been an old-school real office or no office guy, black-and-white with little gray in-between. Certainly, our office was in a co-working space in Sheffield, England …