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 Famously, in George Orwell’s 1984, we were indelibly introduced to the concept of governmental, autocratic doublespeak. Simply speaking, it was the art of fabricating language as a more palatable shell for people to swallow despite it containing terrible truths. No one contends that the book was not a powerful work of …
New Orleans ACORN and the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center for years piled through tax data from nonprofit hospitals in our joint Hospital Accountability Project. We issued a number of reports about the paucity of charity care these hospitals were providing, despite requirements in the Affordable Care Act that they do so …
New Orleans I first met Tony Fazio when he was working with Mike Miller as a community organizer in San Francisco in the early 1970s. The organization was the All People’s Coalition. They were concentrating on Visitation Valley and Sunnyvale. I had tracked them down partially because they had done a series of …