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 A couple of years ago in the wake of ACORN’s Homesavers’ Campaign around predatory rent-to-own schemes, I got a call out of the blue from an Illinois-based owner of various apartment buildings, mostly in the southeastern United States. He was calling in a long shot hope for relief from some tenant …
Pearl River This starts with Lauren Fajardo. I had met her in Toronto when she was helping out with some of the earlier shooting on what became The Organizer film. She was from Cuba. We knew her partner, Joey Carey, who was producing the film, and had gone to school with our daughter, Dine’. …
New Orleans The ongoing dog pile at Project Veritas, the Frankenstein vanity project of rightwing video-scammer James O’Keefe, continues unabated. It’s hard not to enjoy a good thing. None of that is to say that O’Keefe won’t try to resurrect himself in the all-forgiving ecosystem of the right, but the mountain that he’ll …