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 If there’s a community organizer in America who has not been involved at some time or another in a neighborhood zoning fight, I’d like to meet them and hear how that was possible. In this line of work, never working with a group that deals with a zoning issue would be a miracle …
Pearl River With the US election less than four weeks away, it was timely to talk to the veteran progressive political organizer, Bob Creamer on Wade’s World. As it happens, our paths have crossed many times over the last decades. Before becoming a political organizer, Bob was a community organizer for many years based …
New Orleans The corruption indictment on a bunch of nasty counts of bribes, influence peddling, and campaign finagling didn’t come as a surprise to read in the Times. For daily readers, it seemed like one shoe after another was dropping around him and had been doing so for a good part of his …