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".
Barcelona In the first meeting of this year’s Organizers’ Forum delegation, we met David Karavala, one of the leaders and spokespeople for an organization called World Against Racism and Fascism in the back room of a bar near the city center. Over two hours, we not only learned about his organization, but in doing …
Pearl River I was startled to pick up my copy of Poverty & Race, which is normally a pretty dry effort by largely academics sprinkled with some organizers from time to time that looks at policy in these areas produced quarterly by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council. The lead article seemed of …
Brussels Karl Rove was the consiglieri for the Bush branch of the Republican Party. He’s hardly the bellwether for the MAGA brand or a Trump fanboy, but his regular column in the Wall Street Journal gives him a big platform to business, Washington, and the political class in general. He’s a partisan, but he’s …