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 The divisions in politics around the world have often and always been violent. Party adherents attack the devotees of over parties. Rivals eliminate rivals in order to hold on to power or gain power, or in milder cases, jail and exile them. In the United States, we like to pretend the periods of …
New Orleans No questions in my mind. We need to be long gone from Afghanistan. Also, no questions in my mind that the scenes at the airport and the chaos of the evacuation are heart rending. I hold my breath that for all of the real and crocodile tears being shed in …
New Orleans Some years ago, when I could still get a visa to India, I was standing on a corner in Bengaluru with Suresh Kasidan, our head organizer in that area, talking to more than a dozen of our members. Their wares were laid out on the sidewalks around us and they gathered to …