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 Atlanta bills itself as the Queen City of the South, an international hub with perhaps the world’s busiest airport, multiple corporate headquarters, and more depending on the day of the week, and where it can make a buck. Inarguably, it’s a great city that in recent years has grown like topsy. The …
Pearl River As Chief Organizer of ACORN all of these years, I’ve been fortunate to know hundreds of great community and organizational leaders at the country, state, and local level. The ones I would know best were the leaders elected to represent their division of the organization. I would see them at board meetings, …
New Orleans A year ago, August 26th, Ida pushed us out of New Orleans and all of the surrounding area. Seventeen years ago, Katrina had us running and in some cases swimming against the surge for way too many on August 29th. We never get used to this. It surprises me that anyone …