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 Recently in a meeting of ACORN organizers from Canada and the United States, our solidarity guests two organizers we had worked with throughout the year, including a month of training for one in Toronto. They had been applying the ACORN organizing model to build something called the Philadelphia Lot Tenders Union. Talking …
New Orleans Passage of the Fair Housing Act was a seminal accomplishment of the civil right era. Landlords and home sellers were barred from discrimination for race, color, and creed. That doesn’t mean that discrimination ended, far from it. It did mean that there were recourses for the victims of that discrimination. Fast-forward …
New Orleans These days sometimes you just have to pinch yourself in disbelief at the blatant impunity, heedless greed, and stark avarice practiced by some companies and professions willing without morals or mercy to put families in danger, physically and financially, by concealing risk. At least, that’s how I felt looking at the …