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".
San Pedro Sula I don’t associate Canada with cynicism, quite the opposite. Reading a new book, The Petroleum Papers, that included in its focus an emphasis on the role that the Canadian tar sands has played in our worsening climate, made it a little harder to ignore the political and economic deals with the …
San Pedro Sula Even as Covid recedes, there are other epidemics still raging, and the response is racially biased. That’s the takeaway from a devastating article in Scientific American, appropriately entitled “Overdose Inequality.” Let’s start with one-million opioid deaths in the last 30 years. Then let’s move to the fact that in the last …
Pearl River I’ve always said about organizing that the “beginnings prejudice the ends.” Meaning simply, how you start things – like an organization – will have an immense impact on what that organization is ever able to do. If you begin as a tenants’ group, it’s unlikely that you will somehow morph into a …