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 A key component in ACORN’s family of organizations is the Affiliated Media Foundation Movement (AM/FM), which helps manage some radio stations, assists communities in applying for full-power and low-power noncommercial stations, and provides content to those same stations. In talking to applicants for 100-watt low-power stations about construction costs, some are …
New Orleans So much of modern technology seems to only serve the systems and their owners, if they have any, in the name of efficiency and cost saving, that when any of us stumble on something that undoubtedly does both of those things for the company, but also actually, lo and behold, serves …
Mexico City I used to joke about Google, Facebook, and their lot whenever I was having a problem of one sort or another, maybe like a two-hour detour in Honduras on a dirt road using Google Maps or a creepy message on FB, saying that, “Hey, we live in their world.” Once it …