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 My hair is on fire, and it just keeps burning higher and hotter. Reading all of the articles about the big bad budget for me is what I think the cool kids call a “hate read.” Voices on the Republican side against cutting benefits include moderate-ish Congress folks in districts where …
New Orleans All of a sudden ACORN’s Latin American WhatsApp group was blowing up. Honduras was reaching out to Peru with concern. Even with my rough reading of Spanish, I could tell there was big trouble. At first, I thought the unpopular president had been assassinated, but a closer reading and some Google …
Nairobi In this work, sometimes you’re making the news, and sometimes following the news. After months of planning a four-week intensive ACORN training program for our organizers in Nigeria, Uganda, and Kenya in Nairobi, we find ourselves dodging the news all around us, as our time has inadvertently aligned with mass protests against Kenya’s President …