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".
Adirondacks Reading the papers here and there in our polarized country, I was recently struck by how unimaginatively schoolyard is the discourse. I think it was Louisiana’s own rightwing bat-crazy Congressman Higgins who called for the New Orleans Public Health department to be defunded by the federal and state government based on its …
Catania This was creepy. Last night meeting in the early evening with two comrades and supporters who have long worked to bring ACORN to Sicily, as it does inevitably, the question finally came at me, asking what were Americans doing “about Trump.” It was déjà vu all over again. We had just been talking …
Catania I’m counting the days now until I’m home, as I wind down this five-country global business tour. The travel has been longer than I like, but there have been some benefits aside from meeting new friends, helping push new organizing drives farther, and celebrating milestones with our affiliates. Frankly, it’s been nice to …