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".
San Pedro Sula Part of the adventure of ACORN International’s annual board and staff meetings is the experience of going to a new city with everyone and seeing the progress of the local leaders and members on the ground, but the other part of the adventure is always seeing if Skype will work well enough …
New Orleans Props to Dave Weigel of Slate.com for bringing to the public a better understanding of how the Republican U. S. Congress is so consumed by hater-ation that they can’t see the desperate needs of victims of disaster because they are still blinded in the fog of their ghostbusting of the tragically defunct ACORN. …
New Orleans I love my job! Given the differences in international time zones there are surprises all hours of the day and night, because good organizing is happening 24 hours a day. We are about to celebrate this with the publication by Social Policy Press of Global Grassroots: International Perspectives on Organizing this week, but …