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".
Salvador The Organizers’ Forum delegation had learned a lot in our meetings with informal workers unions and cooperatives as well as our hike through the in-city forest, but we wanted to see a side of Salvador away from the breaking waves of the ocean, and the ships in the bay under the care of …
New Orleans In principle, it’s hard to be a fan of foundations. Too many of the rich and super rich use them as little more than tax dodges, choosing their own personal aggrandizement over paying for public services and needs to be approved by the people. The devil needs to be given his …
New Orleans Love it or leave it, there’s just something about the American South that just can’t keep people away. By the droves if we’re talking about the continued populations shifts from almost everywhere across the country to the South. By the billions if you look at the Biden infrastructure investments. By the …