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 Every once in a while, there is a story almost too good to be true, even if it is one of those real-life miracles where the exception proves the rule. I can’t resist the story, even as I concede its improbability. Our union represents sanitation workers in New Orleans. ACORN organizers …
Dallas Looking over at the television in between hockey playoff scores in Calgary before flying home in the predawn, a soundless commercial of some kind was playing. It was hard to figure out without sound, but it became clearer. The video was of three very clean-cut young people doing clean cut regular things. …
Rotterdam With a new ACORN affiliate, WUUNE, in Brussels and emerging organizations where we have fraternal relations in Wallonia, the French-speaking sector of the country, it made sense to take advantage of the train going through the central station on my route from Paris to Rotterdam. I managed to catch several hours with Arnaud …