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".
New Orleans Bill Becker was president of the Arkansas AFL-CIO from 1964 to 1996. He passed away in 1997, shortly after retiring. I met Bill in 1970 in the fall after founding ACORN in Little Rock. I used to drop in and see him every month or so, asking advice, having a cup …
New Orleans ACORN and the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center for years piled through tax data from nonprofit hospitals in our joint Hospital Accountability Project. We issued a number of reports about the paucity of charity care these hospitals were providing, despite requirements in the Affordable Care Act that they do so …
New Orleans I first met Tony Fazio when he was working with Mike Miller as a community organizer in San Francisco in the early 1970s. The organization was the All People’s Coalition. They were concentrating on Visitation Valley and Sunnyvale. I had tracked them down partially because they had done a series of …