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 The spring board meeting for ACORN is held on Zoom. We had good attendance from more than a dozen countries across the globe and multiple time zones. Libera, Sicily, and Malta, among our newest affiliates reported. Kenya filed a written report. Scotland, England, Canada, India, and the USA all answered the …
Pearl River Darned, it must be tough being rich these days. All the charts indicate that the top tenth of one-percent, the top one percent, and even the top ten percent are making out like bandits in the current economy, especially in the US, thanks to Trump and his various tax breaks and reallocations …
Pearl River Oh, mercy, save us from Trump’s SAVE Act, which is all about restricting access to the ballot, fixing things that are not broken, and maintaining power in the hands of the minority, rather than the majority. Currently, amid a flurry of preposterous threats by Trump, the bill is bottled up in Congress, …