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 There’s a long chapter in the autocrats’ playbook on going after the nonprofit sector. In India, Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Morocco, and countless other countries, first you attack and cut off foreign funding. Next you investigate them forcibly and publicly with uniformed police, guns drawn, and seize records, computers, phones, and bank accounts. …
New Orleans When your name comes up in Google Alerts, it’s good to know what’s out there in the world, but mostly my advice from years of experience as often a pin cushion for right wing zealots, conspiratory hunters, and conservative crazies is to treat it like water off a duck’s back. Yawn, …
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 …