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".
Pearl River There’s a lot of heavy breathing about a union-backed ballot proposition in California that would apply a one-time tax on billionaires. Some billionaires seem upset about paying the tax. The founders of Google have attracted a lot of attention claiming they are moving to Florida and elsewhere. These were the same guys …
New Orleans Freedom Path is a conservative advocacy organization, but it may have done advocacy groups of all flavors and persuasions a favor by challenging the US Internal Revenue Service on the issue of fuzzy and non-existent standards for what determines political activity by a tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Freedom Path is classified as …
Pearl River There’s a long chapter in the autocrats’ playbook on going after the nonprofit sector. In India, Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Morocco, and countless other countries, first you attack and cut off foreign funding. Next you investigate them forcibly and publicly with uniformed police, guns drawn, and seize records, computers, phones, and bank accounts. …