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 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 …
New Orleans Make no mistake about it, autocrats everywhere come first for the soft targets, like nonprofits. The cover story may be slightly different from country to country, but it’s all about power and control. Autocrats want to eliminate any voice or sign of opposition and nonprofits and public services are the easiest …
Pearl River We don’t read much about it, because the news these days is so DC and Trump-centric, but if we really want to understand what a weaponized US Justice Department might look like in going after opponents without any pretense of following the rule of law or the Constitution, all we have to …