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 Every once in a while, Google Alerts will pull something up that surprises, when they are acting not like a contemporary search for mentions of ACORN, but more like the Wayback Machine archiving the internet. Recently, they ran something from the Minneapolis Star Tribune and its political column almost fifteen years ago. …
New Orleans There’s nothing easy about running a nonprofit, but in many countries, this has increasingly been like working with a target on your back. This is especially true where democracy is a pretense and autocracy is simply the rule. Tragically, the world’s biggest countries and economies forming the G7 have made this easier …
Pearl River The bureaucratic and technical challenges of modern life are creating immense gaps between people and institutions. Simply saying the digital divide is a problem between rich and poor, between the old and young, and between urban and rural isn’t adequate as a way to understand paths forward that create equity. Worse, these divides …