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".
Philadelphia Like a bad penny, the same question popped up again in the crowd of forty activists and organizers in Philly, just as it had in Easthampton and Cambridge, Massachusetts. People understood that home visits and door knocking are fundamental to the ACORN, but everywhere people are asking if it’s really safe to …
London Preparing to fly home, I started reading the papers at 3 AM in Brussels, then 9 AM in Munich, while changing planes, and now in London’s Heathrow at noon, as I wait for the next leg to Chicago and then home to New Orleans. All of the reporters and pundits are as clueless …