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".
Marble Falls There are a million problems to confront when we’re dealing with climate change. Tackling the issue as a campaign, we have to sort out how to talk about it. Not long ago on Wade’s World we looked at whether or not we might be more successful making the case with less …
Pearl River This starts with Lauren Fajardo. I had met her in Toronto when she was helping out with some of the earlier shooting on what became The Organizer film. She was from Cuba. We knew her partner, Joey Carey, who was producing the film, and had gone to school with our daughter, Dine’. …
Pearl River I liked President Biden’s position when he was refusing to bargain with the Republican Freedom Caucus dominated proposals from the House of Representatives. Showed grit. It probably wasn’t hard to say in the early days of this standoff, when their demands then and now were essentially that he hands over his …