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".
Brooklyn Thanks to my darling daughter, over the last year or so, before I make a long drive whether to Texas, Arkansas, or Georgia, I make sure I’ve got some audiobooks handy. There’s Audible, the Amazon product, and then there’s Libby, the free site from our public library. I was pretty desperate, as I …
Calgary I first heard about Clement Pettijean, a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, when I got a notice of a dialogue between him and Alex Han, the new editor of In These Times. I know Alex from his time years ago as an organizer for Local 880 SEIU, our old ULU sister organization. …
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 …