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".
Pearl River Most of us don’t recognize any fine line between irony and flat-out hypocrisy, but this attack on the largely strawman issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion or DEI, makes it hard to avoid seeing it. Readers and listeners may be sick and tired of hearing about this in recent days, but we …
Marble Falls Watching the shake and bake in the wake of the election reminds me of a universal law of looking at money, I learned as an organizer working for ACORN and presenting budgets, expenses, and audits to the board over the years. The questions from people were rarely about the big items like …
Taipei The Organizers’ Forum delegation was on a deep dive to understand the situations faced by migrant workers in Taiwan with meetings early and late during one day with Jing Ru Wu and her colleagues at the Taiwan International Workers Association (TIWA) and Lennon Ying-Da Wang of Service the People Association (SPA), its …