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 It’s hot here, but across the pond, the heat is new and different for our affiliates there. One of our organizers was delayed on a train to Scotland, because the tracks were so hot, it slowed all of them down. In France, reports indicate that the country may have experienced iis …
New Orleans Out here in the cheap seats, most of us would think that the US Defense Secretary would be wildly busy, what with Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Israel, the Ukraine, NATO, China, and the list just goes on and on, but I guess we would be wrong. He’s got plenty of time and …
Manchester In the fog of jet lag and false expectations, it took me until the afternoon to fully grasp what the Make Amazon Pay campaign and this summit were about. It wasn’t about organizing really, although this was a union-based and funded effort. But they were all about organizing, in the sense of fully …