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".
Mexico City If you think that the 2007-08 housing meltdown taught the government unforgettable lessons, you’re dreaming. For all the problems of Obama exacerbating the crisis by letting banks determine mortgage payers modifications, a classic fox in charge of the chicken house situation, a huge part of the problem was the real estate …
Hamilton The head organizer of ACORN Canada in Hamilton, Ontario, had given me various weather forecasts before I arrived, cold one day, mild another, some rain, some snow. Come prepared, this won’t be New Orleans. It is always warm and welcoming to be able to attend and participate a bit in the year-end meeting …
Hamilton, Ontario Well, I’ll be writing and recording this report from Canada and then flying to Mexico, but reading Attorney General Pam Bondi’s internal memo two weeks ago about her plans to launch investigations on what she and her boss, the president, see as an oppositional network of sorts, I will probably have to …