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".
From: December 25, 2022 Baja California We knew the weather was going to be bad. As the holidays closed in on us, we were running from the forecasts, not just to Mexico for the first time in four years, but to Baja, where the temperature this time of year in the arid desert between …
From: December 24, 2022 Baja California Charity is a funny thing, not funny ha-ha, but funny in the sense that it has a million faces, or at least, as we have often discussed about tax-exempt, nonprofit hospitals, it should have. As organizers, we often scoff at charity as band aid fixes that might ameliorate …
From: December 23, 2022 Baja California I didn’t want to admit how much I wanted to see whales in the wild in their Pacific Ocean habitat. I didn’t want to jinx it. I had first seen whales swimming on the western horizon while driving up the California coast in a Ford Econoline van on …