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".
New Orleans Recently, we talked to an old comrade, Tom Sanzillo, who with his organization has helped provide the research and economic analysis that has gained increasing traction in the campaign to decrease burning coal, because it’s cheaper to use alternative sources. Most of us are clear that this is huge progress, not just …
New Orleans I landed in Newark from Frankfurt and opened my computer to see messages popping up everywhere with breaking news that President Joe Biden had announced that he would not seek a second term as US president in the fall election. World leaders applauded his decision. Columnists and editorial writers hailed his …
Frankfurt There’s a pattern evolving for me that is starting to take shape as a campaign, even if it also feels like it’s becoming a personal obsession. I’m talking about terrible customer service handled ineptly by sundry companies, their robots, and artificial intelligence. To be clear, it’s not just their automated systems, because these call-prompt …