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 Flights were cancelled to Brazil. One stuck in Houston, another in Toronto, and one missing altogether. The Organizers’ Forum is on the road again. We often don’t even start meeting as a delegation until Sunday afternoon or evening, but we jumped out a bit past 8am in order to meet a 16-year-old environmental …
New Orleans Scheduling a call for our Latin American offices with help from a companero in Canada, I was surprised to hear that the Monday after Easter was a holiday for him. For some reason, even living in a historically Catholic City like New Orleans, this was a gap in my education. Organizationally, because …
New Orleans We all remember the Affordable Care Act of 2010, right? You know, Obamacare! Many of you may have been there and done that, gotten on or walked on by because of rules then, or tax credits that didn’t make much sense. It’s time to take another look, but the deadline is …