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".
Montreal Increasingly, I have to say, all airline travel has become epic in the pandemic. Going to Montreal for the ACORN Canada Year End / Year Begin meeting was another mountain climb, but this note is less about “misery loves company,” and more about how even two years into this global horror, we’re still all confused about …
New Orleans Leaving the Green Frog shortly before 5 AM on a Sunday in the pitch dark of San Pedro Sula, Honduras for the airport held some surprises. Google Maps was sending me directly through Centro on a different route than I had taken repeatedly over recent days. Crossing the central park next to the Cathedral, I …
New Orleans I’m starting November by jumping on a plane and heading overseas for seventeen days: going big and hoping to make it home. Traveling has not been for the faint of heart for quite a while, but now in the semi-maybe-post-pandemic openings for travel around the world, it’s a rat’s nest of complexity …