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".
Berkeley This may not have been on the top of your list, but when organizers, young or old, get together informally to catch up and have a cup of coffee, you might wonder what they talk about? Maybe not? They talk about organizing. Who is doing it? Who isn’t? What’s the same? What’s different? …
San Francisco Reportedly, Trump and his administration have made a deal with themselves on his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for not preventing the release of his tax returns. You didn’t need to be an ethics expert to wonder how such a lawsuit, much less a settlement, could easily be reached when …
New Orleans, We don’t regularly follow all of the times that billionaires and those who want to be are investigated or charged by the US or the Security and Exchange Commission for stock dealings, but we have kept our eyes on the cases involving Gautam Adani, reportedly now the richest man in India. …