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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08152019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsGulf Shores The Yellow Vests or Gilets Jaunes protest in France began in the middle of November of 2018. In July in rural France in the Rhone/Alps region when ACORN International organizers met at an old farm house fifteen kilometers from St. Etienne, less than ten minutes …
Geneva The membership of ACORN’s affiliate in France, the Alliance Citoyenne, is largely based in public housing in Grenoble and the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers now as it expands to build broader community-based groups in Lyon and Marseille. Typical of ACORN’s low-and-moderate income constituency, it is very diverse, though largely white, a significant percentage are …
St. Etienne As the organizers shook of the aftermath of fellowship-and-solidarity time that had gone on until the wee hours and included robust singing with new verses to all ACORN songs, they hunkered into the discussions of how ACORN was addressing both climate change and politics. There were two approaches that organizers argued on raising …