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 Georgia makes just about anyone’s list of battleground states for the November US presidential election, but there’s every indication that it’s a battleground for voters simply trying to get on the voter rolls and then stay on the rolls without being purged either deliberately or through technical sloppiness. Most recently, reports by …
New Orleans ACORN had one-crew on the ground in metro Atlanta in the get-out-the-vote effort for the recent Senate election, recruited largely from Pennsylvania by longtime organizer and Pittsburgh activist and music aficionado, Maryellen Deckard. They were revisiting the turf we had hit two-years ago in the special runoff election to culminate the …
May 22, 2022 Pearl River We all know the warning: don’t poke the bear. Most of us don’t have much of a chance to put that warning into practice, because we aren’t near bears. Those of us who do run into them from time to time, take it to heart. The Georgia legislature may …