Tag: ACORN International
‘Victory of global significance’: Modi to repeal laws that sparked year-long farmers’ revolt
“After a year of strikes—and having faced brutal repression that claimed some 700 lives—India’s farmers are victorious in their struggle.” by Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams Saturday, November 20, 2021 Workers’ rights activists around the globe rejoiced…
Organizing in the Year of the Plague
by Wade Rathke January 28, 2021 New Orleans The Year End / Year Begin meeting is a tradition and vital piece of planning, reflection, and celebration with our ACORN family of organizations. This one was…
Hipsters of the world unite
by Wade Rathke Thursday, November 19, 2020 New Orleans Hipsters are absolutely not taking over the world, but it’s hard not to find them almost all over the world. MoveHub, an international shipping company got…
Police plus shots equal feet on the street
by Wade Rathke October 23, 2020 Little Rock About twenty Georgia State University School of Social Work students watched the film, The Organizer, in Atlanta recently. I zoomed in for a questions-and-answers session after it…
Demanding investigation, Amnesty International and UN official condemn killing of #EndSARS protesters by Nigerian forces
“There need to be immediate, independent, transparent, and thorough investigations, not just into last night’s killings, but also into all the previous violations committed by security forces.” by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Wednesday, October 21 Both…
Support protests in Nigeria!
by Wade Rathke Tuesday, October 20 New Orleans It’s a small world. Marva Burnett, the president of ACORN Canada and ACORN International, visited several cities in Nigeria last year with her church group. She met…
Community Radio on the frontlines
by Wade Rathke October 11, 2020 Pearl River The Grassroots Radio Coalition is a loose confederation of various progressive community radio stations around the country. We got involved with them when, to our surprise, they had…
The Indian government’s attack on nonprofits
by Wade Rathke October 8, 2020 New Orleans In recent weeks the conservative, communalist Indian government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken steps yet again to attack nonprofits, especially those with any extensive ties…
What the New York Times gets right and wrong about ACORN
by Wade Rathke October 7, 2020 New Orleans P.T. Barnum, the famous 19th century impresario and huckster from Bridgeport, Connecticut is often quoted as saying, “Any kind of publicity is good publicity as long as…
Old and New Social Movements
by Wade Rathke Sunday, September 13 Pearl River Every month in the 50th anniversary year of ACORN, I’ve been talking on the radio to veteran organizers and others with unique perspectives on the organization, its history,…
Appraisal hell
by Wade Rathke August 31, 2020 New Orleans Finally, one of the deep, dark secrets of home ownership and home buying is coming to light – the mysterious, highly subjective, largely unregulated world of real…
The dangers of no one looking at info and data
by Wade Rathke August 29, 2020 Pearl River A million years ago a random snip of an article or book or something, I honestly don’t remember, made what seemed to me a profound observation. The…
Microfinance is now a mega-mess
by Wade Rathke New Orleans A little less than a decade ago, in mid-2011, ACORN International stirred up a bit of a hornets’ nest by opposing the international development consensus in a series of reports we…
Mutual aid and governmental responsibility
by Wade Rathke New Orleans Mutual aid or solidarity work has long been a feature of political activity in times of crisis and often at all times. ACORN affiliates around the world have been involved…
Making reality from fiction: underground soccer leagues
Pearl River Remember way back in another lifetime, pre-pandemic, before the coronavirus global killer wave? It seems years ago, but it was only last summer that ACORN’s French affiliate, Alliance Citoyenne, gained huge attention throughout…
Putting the fist on the wood again
by Wade Rathke Pearl River The sports pages are full of discussion about whether or not baseball players will be putting the wood on the ball soon in huge, empty parks, or whether basketball players…
Riding the Zoom to link global voices for governance
by Wade Ratke New Orleans I witnessed something of a miracle yesterday as thirty leaders and staff from more than fifteen ACORN affiliates were successfully able to hold a board meeting for two hours on Zoom….
Why ACORN and the cartels and not the state?
New Orleans I had to do a doubletake. What in the world? There were pictures of armed men with masks giving out food and protective gear in Mexican barrios. Another picture, eerily like the ones…
Google rolls the sidewalk up in Toronto
by Wade Rathke New Orleans The old saying was always that “pride cometh before the fall.” In the case of Alphabet-Google’s Sidewalk visions of grandeur, it turns out pride — and arrogance –came from the…
