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".
Sao Paulo My father would have liked Brazil. He knew “field” Spanish from time spent in the California orange groves when his dad was a foreman there near Orange and Santa Anna. He would help out and talk to the Mexican workers when they were putting out smudge pots to ward off freezes or …
Heerlen The National Programma Heerlen Nord is one of twenty large community and economic development projects established by the Netherlands government to change the conditions in targeted communities over a twenty to twenty-five year timeline. These are potentially large scale operations with lots of moving pieces, requiring a high level of consensus and …
Heerlen There are two pictures in the news that we will see for years, perhaps for decades. One is Donald Trump’s glowering mugshot as he was booked at Georgia’s Fulton County Jail. The other is Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s Wagner paramilitary mercenary group, in full camo warrior pose in Africa days before …