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".
Toronto Listening to the ACORN Canada leadership at their annual general meeting discussing current and future organizational campaigns, some of the most animated discussion concerned some of the oldest ACORN issues, both in Canada over the last twenty years and ACORN over the last fifty: rising electricity bills and continuing issues with banking practices. …
Marble Falls Coming to Arkansas in 1970, it was hard to find a state that voted for more Democrats. Sure, there was the one northwestern congressional district in the Ozarks that had leaned Republican since protesting the state’s Civil War secession, but Arkansas was a barometer state in presidential politics, having voting for whoever …
From: December 25, 2022 Baja California We knew the weather was going to be bad. As the holidays closed in on us, we were running from the forecasts, not just to Mexico for the first time in four years, but to Baja, where the temperature this time of year in the arid desert between …