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".
Nairobi The ACORN Kenya leaders in Korogocho were set to have a planning meeting in the chief’s compound there. Traffic had been fairly smooth. The leaders wandered into the compound in ones and twos, and soon we were ready to begin. I had been here several times over the last fourteen years since …
Nairobi In this work, sometimes you’re making the news, and sometimes following the news. After months of planning a four-week intensive ACORN training program for our organizers in Nigeria, Uganda, and Kenya in Nairobi, we find ourselves dodging the news all around us, as our time has inadvertently aligned with mass protests against Kenya’s President …
Heerlen The Times offered many details about the narco-crimes involving Juan Orlando Hernandez in reporting that he was sentenced by a New York-based federal judge to 45-years in prison, effectively a life sentence. The case had been lingering since his arrest at the end of his term as president of Honduras from 2014 to 2022. …