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 In puzzling out the big city, New Yorker Donald Trump and his appeal, there’s some interest in the media and in the mainstream about what’s up with rural America. Is this the “real” America, as some conservatives claim, or is this just the hotbed of the left-behinds and white Christian nationalists, …
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 …