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 The crime is redlining, the pernicious policy of banks discriminating against lower income and minority communities particularly in mortgage lending. And, yes, despite passage of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) not only is redlining still happening, but the impacts of its history are still having …
From: December 24, 2022 Baja California Charity is a funny thing, not funny ha-ha, but funny in the sense that it has a million faces, or at least, as we have often discussed about tax-exempt, nonprofit hospitals, it should have. As organizers, we often scoff at charity as band aid fixes that might ameliorate …
London, Ontario We joke all the time about the collective life force that propels us to “fight boredom” and the importance of being “lifetime learners.” Ok, maybe “we” is wrong, but I certainly joke about that as a way to explain to colleagues my reading, my work, travel, and more. It keeps the mind …