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".
New Orleans Living in the USA, I’m so sick of reading about Trump, Cornell, Iran, and more that stumbling on a story with a happy ending seems like a gift in itself. Surprisingly there was one in the New York Times, of all places. It starts in sadness, of course. A New York …
Marble Falls Let me start by acknowledging that some parts of the world may simply be moving too quickly down the road for me to keep up. In my defense, or as an excuse, I realize I’ve got a lot of company. I’d like to argue that I’m simply on the trailing edge, …
Pearl River While posting a blog to Facebook on what we have called “maximum eligible participation” in a riff on the old War on Poverty line about “maximum feasible participation” of the poor, I found myself calling for a “mass enrollment campaign.” I of course in my excitement mistyped that exhortation as “pass enrollment …