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".
Buffalo River The Buffalo River is an undammed and undaunted stretch of water for more than 130 miles in Northwest Arkansas. It was the first river to be a designated as a National Park in 1964. It bends and riffles in the middle portion where we had set our sights along high granite …
Buffalo River Years ago, visiting Uruguay, with a delegation of community and union organizers, we got a crash course in carbon offsets that were being sold on a huge forest area in this Latin American country to big global branded corporations. The environmental nonprofit was presenting this as good for Uruguay because it …
New Orleans Living in New Orleans, we depend on the Mississippi River, and in my case, living only a couple of blocks from the great river in a neighborhood appropriately called Bywater, the river is a neighbor. At between 175 and 200 feet deep at the crescent near me, ocean going ships can …