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 Every once in a while, Google Alerts will pull something up that surprises, when they are acting not like a contemporary search for mentions of ACORN, but more like the Wayback Machine archiving the internet. Recently, they ran something from the Minneapolis Star Tribune and its political column almost fifteen years ago. …
Marble Falls Maybe you remember Michael Moore, the journalist, documentarian, and political activist? I don’t keep up with him, but he was an ACORN supporter, so I have to confess a soft spot for him. One of our organizers from India shared a long post from Moore on our staff WhatsApp group, which …
Marble Falls Recently, there was an obit for Jerry Miller, the lead guitarist for the 60s West Coast band, Moby Grape, that had quite a moment during their time. It used to be that there couldn’t have been an article about him or the group without a mention of another band member, Peter Lewis, …