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 Once upon a time, more than twenty years ago, when ACORN expanded internationally, we used to say it would not have been possible without email, cheaper plane fares, and Skype. We still have email, but plane fares are hardly cheap, even though they can still get us there when we need to …
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 The North American ACORN Year End / Year Begin meeting ended at noon on Sunday. Today is Martin Luther King’s Birthday, a holiday in the United States, and by the flip of the calendar, also Inauguration Day in Washington, DC, where Donald Trump will take the oath, likely with his little fingers …