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 Where there are renters or homeowners, there are going to be evictions. Agreements with landlords, banks or mortgage companies are serious, when entered in good faith, but that’s not always the case, either in the beginning at move in or at the end at push out. For tenants, we’ve fought successfully in several …
New Orleans There’s a call on my calendar about getting ACORN up and running in Cleveland by organizing tenants there. One of the participants noted that it was a perfect way to celebrate Juneteenth. Indeed! Pairing the date with yesterday’s fifty-fourth anniversary of ACORN’s founding is also kind of special in its own way, …
Marble Falls Maybe it’s nostalgia or a memory defect, but it seems like there was a time, maybe in the 70s before Nixon, where fledgling organizations, grassroots, low-income, issue-responsive, or what some call frontline groups now, could relatively easily access legal advice and help. Legal services were actually federally funded. There were large and …