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 We don’t read much about it, because the news these days is so DC and Trump-centric, but if we really want to understand what a weaponized US Justice Department might look like in going after opponents without any pretense of following the rule of law or the Constitution, all we have to …
Pearl River It seems like it was from another time completely, but remember with me the extravaganza that Amazon manufactured in the competition between cities across the United States as locations for their second headquarters. Cities went crazy. Proposals of all kinds, deep with money and other incentives, went flying out of city halls …
Mumbai Being in Dharavi, where ACORN has worked for almost twenty years, and meeting with our members one day, and then the ACORN Women’s Waste Collective on another, the concerns about the impending redevelopment plan for this huge community of almost one-million residents and workplaces was palpable. The Adani Group somehow won this controversial …