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 Even if we hadn’t just returned from visiting various organizations in Spain with the Organizers’ Forum, we would have been following the dramatic protests by thousands in Madrid who mobilized to turnback the eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her apartment. None of this solved the overall Spanish housing crisis and in …
New Orleans In the United States, we are only one-month away from the midterm elections. Elections haven’t been going all that well for us on the big cycles in recent years, so we may have to relish some good news before the election with the full recognition that it may be a mirage. …
Toronto “Another day, another dollar” might soon be replaced by another day, another bunch of AI agents go rogue. It sometimes seems, in one test after another of artificial intelligence, the agents can’t seem to remember their boundaries, find workarounds, and then spend time trying to cover their tracks and make up stuff. It’s …