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".
Mumbai The Adani Group is huge in India. They run ports, airports, construction, and more. ACORN and many others are toe-to-toe with them over their plans to develop Dharavi, the megaslum in the city center where we have worked for the last more than fifteen years. Recently, they were in the news for some accounting …
Pearl River The crime is redlining, the pernicious policy of banks discriminating against lower income and minority communities particularly in mortgage lending. And, yes, despite passage of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) not only is redlining still happening, but the impacts of its history are still having …
Marble Falls I went to a Dairy Queen the other day that was on the side of the highway, when I was looking for a bite in the early evening. Strangely, the parking lot was packed with sedans and pickups and, once inside, I felt lucky to get a table a bit after …