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".
Marble Falls My first reaction was disbelief. I asked Dharmendra Kumar, ACORN India’s director in Delhi, “Do you realize the time difference between Bangkok, Thailand and me?” He was moderating a panel at the Asian Pacific World Social Forum that would run between 415 PM and 545 PM Bangkok time which would be 315 …
Marble Falls Finally! Who says that the US Congress can’t agree on anything? The Senate has now unanimously passed legislation that members of the Supreme Court and all federal judges will have post their stock trades and financial holdings in real time. Notice, I said unanimously. In December, the House of Representatives had …
Marble Falls Recently, I’ve gotten an uncomfortable feeling. Maybe I’m caught in my own bubble? Maybe I’m guilty of whatever this “doom scrolling” phenomenon is that I’ve read about? Maybe it’s something worse? Maybe I’m seeing through my own rosy colored glasses and coming out of the fog of denial? Whatever it is, …