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 When Hurricane Ida came into the greater New Orleans area in August 2021, we were spared, or so we thought. The levees held. Flooding was minimal. Evacuations were chaotic, leading for continuing calls for re-establishing contraflow to ease mass exits, but on the whole, we all mostly felt lucky. Then the …
Marble Falls I’m always looking for signs of hope when people committed to change realize that it will never happen top down, but only will be real when it’s bottom up. Nowhere has this been truer than among environmentalists who have tended to come late to the game on many of these campaigns …
Marble Falls We’ve looked at the diversity and governance of rural electric cooperatives closely over the last five or six years. By we, I mean ACORN International, Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center, and Local 100 United Labor Unions that came together as the Rural Power Project. It hasn’t been a pretty picture. …