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".
Marble Falls Virtually, every day, rain or shine, the Peoples’ Daily News has to be written and produced for the “voice of the people” stations in New Orleans and Little Rock. Recently, there was a brief squib about the decline of traffic enforcement and what that meant for both increased fatalities and perhaps a …
Marble Falls I’m on the record in Nuts and Bolts on stray dogs as a ubiquitous issue around the world for community organizers, along with garbage pickup and bad drainage. I argued that if we could build organizations that could campaign and win on these three issues, we could organize the world. All …
San Francisco Some thirty veteran organizers and activists from labor unions, community organizations, philanthropy, and political work gathered in the Mission District of San Francisco to learn something about what ACORN is now at fifty-four in the United States and across the globe, compared to what it was at thirty-eight. This gathering was …