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 Reboot ACORN, hell yes! I almost didn’t care what the rest of the opinion piece by Jason Linkins in The New Republic might say, because the title alone was tailor made to make my day. As the classic movie line aptly says, he “had me from Hello!” My Google Alert for …
Pearl River I regularly get postcards and mailings every five years on the turn of the calendar inquiring, demanding, and soliciting my attendance at a college reunion. Having barely completed two years there, I get invitations based on my original class and my kind of secondary class. Either way, I would never go. I …
Pearl River It has been many minutes since I have run into Ellen Bravo, but I welcomed the chance to do so again, this time on Wade’s World. Ellen has been in the work for decades, coming to wide attention when she was the director of 9-to-5, the National Association of Working Women, for …