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".
Little Rock There are so many conspiracies and controversies out there these days, who has time to shovel past the first couple of inches to suss many of them out? Not me, for sure, but that doesn’t mean that we bury our head in the dirt, does it? No, we pick and choose. For …
Pearl River If there’s a community organizer in America who has not been involved at some time or another in a neighborhood zoning fight, I’d like to meet them and hear how that was possible. In this line of work, never working with a group that deals with a zoning issue would be a miracle …
New Orleans ACORN’s Voter Purge Project collects the current voter files from more than 45 states and the District of Columbia. We do so on a regular basis in order to monitor the active and inactive voter designations from month to month or quarter to quarter, depending on the cost of the list, so …