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 ACORN made its public debut in Cleveland with a smashing announcement of a jointly authored and researched study between ACORN and VAPAC, the Vacant and Abandoned Properties Action Council, focused on a Baltimore-based company, Riparian Capital Partners. Riparian had acquired 173 properties in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, with 153 located in Cleveland. ACORN …
New Orleans Even if we hadn’t just returned from visiting various organizations in Spain with the Organizers’ Forum, we would have been following the dramatic protests by thousands in Madrid who mobilized to turnback the eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her apartment. None of this solved the overall Spanish housing crisis and in …
Marble Falls Back in the USA, Trump continues to court chaos, which was hardly a surprise, and largely bereft of even a hint of rationality. He’s obsessed with his narcissistic capitol city makeover. The reflecting pool was always a $14 million, no bid, boondoggle, and done with so much ineptness that the paint …