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".
Cleveland Finding ourselves in Cleveland after meetings on the Voter Purge Project near Columbus and an ACORN training session with the Anthropocene Alliance, we looked up one of our former community organizers, Kris Harsh, to find out his perspective on Cleveland these days. We met a local watering hole right across the street from …
Cleveland Ok, what does airline travel have to do with national parks? Good question, but somehow, they came together for me, maybe because both have to do with access. I read a story about a young, 26-year-old man who managed to get on a flight from Salt Lake City to somewhere like Oklahoma. Seems …
New Orleans In the recent Supreme Court’s decision that voided a state’s ability to deny a place on the ballot to candidates for federal office because Congress needed to enact a law indicating how they would handle disqualifications under the 14th Amendment for insurrection, former President Trump got a pass. I never thought …