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".
Marble Falls Almost fifty years ago, Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act or CRA seeking to close the door on bank and lender redlining and open up the prospects for homeownership for millions of lower income families. ACORN used Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data and the CRA to negotiation agreements with banks …
Marble Falls The World Social Forum originated in Porto Allegre, Brazil in 2001, twenty-five years ago. Claiming that “another world is possible”, the WSF attracted great interest in its early years with thousands of participants and addresses from Brazil’s Lula de Silva, Naom Chomsky, and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez back in the day. Initially, …
Marble Falls When it comes to Trump these days, it’s hard to pick which moral from a children’s tale best fits how domestically and internationally he is seen and heard these days. Is it the boy who keeps crying wolf so often that no one listens to his bellowing anymore, so that he …