WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
June 19, 2021 New Orleans Having made it back from the West Coast, where I reprised by annual spring visit, postponed from 2020, until June, I can offer a firsthand report: America is on the move. The planes were jampacked, and flights were double the prices that I remember. Rental cars, same thing. On my …
June 17, 2021 San Francisco Having missed my regular visits to the Bay Area of California during the pandemic year, I tried to fill my dance cards with organizing friends, comrades, and partners to catch up with what they were doing, how they were thinking about the work, and where it was going. Some of …
June 16, 2021 San Francisco Talking to a longtime colleague and friend yesterday in the Mission in San Francisco, where pockets are still stubbornly trying to resist gentrification, invariably the conversation settled quickly into the Amazon watch, and we’re not talking about rainforest, unless that means the tech empire where money currently seems to be …
June 15, 2021 San Jose If it’s not one thing, it’s another. The entire economy collapses due to the pandemic. In a rarity, the federal government stepped in to save the day so that millions of Americans don’t starve to death as almost twelve million were unemployed. Now, of course, we have to hear daily …
June 13, 2021 Pearl River There’s more truth than rumor in the joke about “getting old isn’t for wimps” or words to that effect. My dad passed at 87. It happened in the wink of an eye. His heart just stopped. Period. We weren’t ready, even though intellectually we knew he had a pacemaker and …