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 The Organizers’ Forum is heading to Taipei, Taiwan, this year for our annual international dialogue. The delegation is forming now, so we’re open to adding anyone interested in joining the regulars who have already signed up. Taiwan is of course in the news all the time. There’s no denying that there is …
Marble Falls Maybe it’s nostalgia or a memory defect, but it seems like there was a time, maybe in the 70s before Nixon, where fledgling organizations, grassroots, low-income, issue-responsive, or what some call frontline groups now, could relatively easily access legal advice and help. Legal services were actually federally funded. There were large and …
Pearl River I was late to the game, and it took a New Yorker article to introduce me formally to Maggie Rogers, a young singing and pop sensation. It wasn’t my first meeting. Often when I’m home, having walked the dog and eating my oatmeal in the predawn, I ask Alexa to play alternative …