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".
Calgary Just to get the facts straight, one of the ACORN Canada board members from Halifax quipped, “The Canadian province of Alberta has NOT asked to be admitted to the United States as the 51st state, but if they did, the rest of us would let them go!” There’s a story here for sure …
New Orleans Texas has a reputation as oil country. There aren’t drilling rigs on the state capitol grounds in Austin, like there are in Oklahoma City, but you can find them almost everywhere else. Less well known is that Texas has also been a leader in building alternative energy production and integrating wind …
Pearl River No question. We live in hard times of division and reaction now. Could it be worse? Absolutely! In fact, it often has been worse, as I was reminded in reading the efforts of the Wobblies to organize in the United States in the early decades of the twentieth century and then visiting …