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 I’m on the record in Nuts and Bolts on stray dogs as a ubiquitous issue around the world for community organizers, along with garbage pickup and bad drainage. I argued that if we could build organizations that could campaign and win on these three issues, we could organize the world. All …
Marble Falls Having been organizationally involved in voter protection, voter registration, and getting people to vote, I guess I would have to admit that I take it personally, not just professionally. I read a well-meaning piece by reporter Michael Wine in the Times that sought to document some of the efforts in states like …
New Orleans There’s nothing easy about running a nonprofit, but in many countries, this has increasingly been like working with a target on your back. This is especially true where democracy is a pretense and autocracy is simply the rule. Tragically, the world’s biggest countries and economies forming the G7 have made this easier …