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 I first met Tony Fazio when he was working with Mike Miller as a community organizer in San Francisco in the early 1970s. The organization was the All People’s Coalition. They were concentrating on Visitation Valley and Sunnyvale. I had tracked them down partially because they had done a series of …
Toronto As luck would have it, I had come to Toronto for the regular spring meeting of ACORN Canada’s lead and head organizers from around the country almost immediately after Toronto members had released their “State of Repair Report” based on a survey of tenants over progress of the RentSafe program in the city. …
Marble Falls Jesse Jackson, prominent civil rights leader for decades and two-time presidential candidate, has passed away at 84 years of age. Jackson and his advocacy for African-Americans, economic development, and have nots here and abroad, were unstinting and a longtime part of the news cycle from his days with SCLC and Operation …