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".
Pearl River Recently in a meeting of ACORN organizers from Canada and the United States, our solidarity guests two organizers we had worked with throughout the year, including a month of training for one in Toronto. They had been applying the ACORN organizing model to build something called the Philadelphia Lot Tenders Union. Talking …
Pearl River Here’s a treat, as well as a bit of déjà vu. Here in the age of Mamdani in New York City and the many years that ACORN alone and via the Working Families Party was in the middle of elections in the city, I stumbled onto an ACORN forbearer with a similar …
New Orleans There is an undeclared civil war in America now. Trump and his administration have weaponized and mobilized the federal government in one initiative after another against people in the United States. Seeing himself as having unlimited powers and enabling his administration to ignore the law and deal brutally with opponents, whether …