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 Once upon a time, more than twenty years ago, when ACORN expanded internationally, we used to say it would not have been possible without email, cheaper plane fares, and Skype. We still have email, but plane fares are hardly cheap, even though they can still get us there when we need to …
New Orleans Greenpeace is well known around the world as an activist environmental organization over the last more than fifty years. Internationally, it’s based in the Netherlands, but has huge branches in many countries. To say the organization is high-profile is almost an understatement. Its ships have tried to stop nuclear testing, been …
New Orleans When your name comes up in Google Alerts, it’s good to know what’s out there in the world, but mostly my advice from years of experience as often a pin cushion for right wing zealots, conspiratory hunters, and conservative crazies is to treat it like water off a duck’s back. Yawn, …