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".
Toronto As luck would have it, I had come to Toronto for the regular spring meeting of ACORN Canada’s lead and head organizers from around the country almost immediately after Toronto members had released their “State of Repair Report” based on a survey of tenants over progress of the RentSafe program in the city. …
Toronto It took me a couple of days to finally get past the headlines and read the new exposes from United Farm Workers Union co-founder Delores Huerta and others about sexual abuse and rape at the hands of the other co-founder and longtime leader of the union and icon symbol of the Chicano and …
New Orleans When it comes to surveillance the key takeaway is that we know better, but we can’t help ourselves. We’ve almost lost the fight before we even suit up for the battle. All of this came home hard when I was talking to George Washington University Law School Professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson …