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 The polarity embedded in the current presidential and Congressional contests offers as a clear a choice as we have had in my voting life between Harris and Trump. In some quarters, the choice almost seems between good and evil. With voting only one month away, the race is still amazingly close, …
San Francisco I don’t worry much about asteroids. It’s not just because it’s light years, perhaps literally, out of my lane and way past any high school courses and subsequent reading would have given me much of a clue. It’s more in the nature of the old saying, “I got a guy,” which substituted …
Marin City I had met Terrie Harris-Green, the Executive Director of Marin City Climate Resilience and Health Justice once before in Oakland at an ACORN–Anthropocene Alliance training. Coincidentally, her organization and My Eden Voice were both in attendance and both were working in unincorporated areas in their California counties, Marin in one case and …