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 In Finland, the Prime Minister is a young woman. She kicked up a hornet’s nest in this reputedly happy-happy country by dancing with her friends at a club one night recently. We’re a long way from the tut-tuting, eyebrow raising folks over there to know the details, but she passed a …
Buffalo River The Buffalo River is an undammed and undaunted stretch of water for more than 130 miles in Northwest Arkansas. It was the first river to be a designated as a National Park in 1964. It bends and riffles in the middle portion where we had set our sights along high granite …
May 28, 2022 Buffalo River Every Friday our union staff gets together on a group conference call to compare notes, count the numbers, and collaborate on problems in our various offices and units across Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. Our most recent call was missing Toney Orr, our field director, so I was presiding. …