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".
Marble Falls June 18th is ACORN Founders Day. On the staff, you could either take your birthday or Founders Day as a holiday, if you had had to work a holiday during the year. Fifty-six years is a long time since ACORN began in Little Rock, Arkansas, and now with 300,000 members works …
Marble Falls Sports is a funny thing in the way it both establishes fervent home team divisions and brings people together at the same time. The juxtaposition is easy to see right now as the NBA’s Knicks have brought the highly disparate population of New York City together, and the intense global phenomena …
Marble Falls Yikes, it’s déjà vu all over again. I got an email and then an invitation to a zoom radio broadcast. The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a group I knew and had actually done some workshops with in Youngstown some years ago, had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department over voter registration. Was …