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 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 …
New Orleans We finished our last day of workshops on ACORN organizing in Baltimore in the massive old theater complex that is now CASA’s multi-service worker center in the city. We worked with a mixed group of professional organizers and a number of what I had begun calling “seekers.” These are activists looking …