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 2022 wasn’t so long ago that we can’t remember it. The oil shock that brutalized the world economy then came from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The reverberations were everywhere, but the impact on Europe was the worse, because they relied on Russian imported oil. While they weaned off, they were basically financing …
New Orleans Trump’s and Israel’s war with Iran is entering its second month. The president is claiming that we’re coming around the corner. Since it seems no one was ever clear about where we were going, it’s now an equal mystery what we are supposed to find when we finally get there. Interestingly, …
San Francisco One of the major, underestimated values of consistent work by community organizations is the pure and simple importance of persistence. When I got the text from my son via his Apple news alert, I contained myself until I found the confirmation in the Washington Post. It was true, after more than …