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".
Birmingham For folks in Birmingham and ACORN members arriving for their conference, there will finally be something to talk about besides what was once called “unseasonable heat,” but is now clearly climate change and the wave of the future. England is playing someone, it hardly matters whom, but I believe it’s Norway, in …
Birmingham, England Good times in Edinburgh! I was reminded that I had been in Scotland since the pandemic, having joined our members in Glasgow in 2022 at COP26 there in the cold and rain, but I had not been in Edinburgh for some time. Before coming, I had reached out to two of …
Edinburgh It had been a minute since I had been in Edinburgh, I don’t think since the pandemic for sure. It made sense to visit now on my way to Birmingham later in the week to attend the biennial conference of ACORN in England and Wales in coming days, because our international staff and …