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 When I saw the headline, I cringed. I knew trouble was coming. What were they thinking?!? House Speaker wannabe, Kevin McCarthy, had only weeks earlier caught a bit of heat hinting that if Republicans took control of Congress the virtually unanimous support for the Ukrainian efforts to resist the Russian invasion …
Pearl River We were organizing nurses at a hospital in Amarillo, Texas some years ago in the time of the Haley Bopp comet. We’d filed for an NLRB election, but we were far afield of our natural base in Texas in the big cities. It was one of those situations where we should have …
Pearl River As Chief Organizer of ACORN all of these years, I’ve been fortunate to know hundreds of great community and organizational leaders at the country, state, and local level. The ones I would know best were the leaders elected to represent their division of the organization. I would see them at board meetings, …