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".
San Francisco Last year the Organizers’ Forum marked more than 20 years by returning to Brazil, where we had inaugurated the Forum initially. We had grabbed the opportunity to have be there on the eve of Lula’s first election and then book ended with his return once for another term. This year we’re …
New Orleans We hear a lot about the Federal Reserve, especially when the nation is struggling to deal with either unemployment or inflation, or, worse, both at the same time. Former President Trump in a hollow piece of demagoguery claimed recently that if elected, he would make sure interest rates were lowered. In …
New Orleans Of all the surprises of this election season, one of the biggest to me has been the conservative effort to overtly subjugate women. In general, I’m not surprised to find that the right wants to put women in the kitchen-cage and the maternity ward, but to move this from a constant undercurrent …