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 Paddling a canoe on a bayou regularly, year in, year out, one season after another, some might think is boring, but they would be wrong. There will be more ducks some years than others, and they will breed and nest in different places along the bayous. Some years there will be alligators …
Philadelphia Another Saturday and it’s another training day with community-based organizations and members of the Anthropocene Alliance with ACORN. Groups came from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Maryland, so there were numerous perspectives on social and environmental issues. We were meeting in the old ACORN building on Broad Street. Decades ago, we used …
Little Rock Are you kidding me? I do a report one day about the fight on the Gulf Coast about LNG terminals, and the very next day I see on the front page of the New York Times that the Biden Administration suddenly kicked the entire industry in the guts. Are they reading my …