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".
Pearl River Over the last couple of years in talking to ACORN organizers in the UK and Europe, I’ve often heard tidbits about tenants organizing with some strength and success in Barcelona, Spain. In Brussels last month, I barely missed meeting one of the leaders and organizers of the tenants’ union there, when it …
New Orleans The august New York Times laid the claim that Trump’s first 100 days of this new term were the most momentous since the original first 100 days were measured in Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first term. Both were about building a new understanding of government’s role in the life of the country …
New Orleans Just like in a US presidential election; I found myself checking for early results before I went to sleep and scrolling at 4:30 AM to see the results to that point. It turns out that Trump does have long coattails in elections. It’s just that they may be in Canada, not …