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".
Nairobi My last visit to our organizers in Kenya was a trip to Nairobi in 2018. The pandemic kept not ending from 2019 forward, so finally we are all trying to come together now five years later. If there are easy ways to travel to Nairobi, I haven’t found them. No US-based airline comes directly …
New Orleans Another Black Friday has come and gone, or has it? Now, there’s Cyber-Monday, and every kind of small business seems to be jumping on the bandwagon at least pretending there’s a sale on offer. I even read some report about a woman who specialized in finding cheaper prices than Amazon on …
New Orleans When it comes to Big Tech these days, we live in their world, and they are constantly putting that fact right in our faces. Their mission seems to be to make every day Halloween. If you want their treat, though it might seem freely offered, there’s a trick somewhere embedded in …