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".
Paris What do I know? The young organizer was worried that the room we had for screening the documentary on ACORN called “The Organizer” in Paris was too small. More than 40 people had said they were coming on Facebook. I assured her we would be lucky to break 20 or 25, especially since the …
Atlanta After the a two-ringed circus in Atlanta where I met with our the four graduate social work school interns who are working with the ACORN Home Savers Campaign for the next semester and the screening of The Organizer at the Andrew Young Center on campus, I got to visit with several veteran union organizers …
New York City Reasonable people might ask, “What does a community and labor organizer know about documentary films?” The answer would be darned little! I say this after having watched several develop over the last seven years or so as various filmmakers with different ideas and themes tried to get their arms around ACORN and …