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 Someone could almost rewrite the song line, “War? What is it good for?” and substitute WTO for war and still get a lot of us clapping and singing along. Not because the World Trade Organization or WTO for short is not a blood and guts outfit with bombs bursting, but many …
New Orleans Time changes, but what does the body know? What was 4am is now 5am, and on and on. Over recent weeks, my internal clock is confused. Nepal and then India to New Orleans on a ten-and-a-half-hour difference, and then on a three-day turn around, head to Heerlen, Netherlands with a seven-hour …
Delhi Often coming back from foreign travel, I would answer my father’s questions when I would return when he would ask me to tell him something that would interest him about that country. Having been in India on the birthday he shared with George Washington, which we used to kid him was his …