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".
Mexico City There were delegates and representatives there for this first ACORN International board meeting from the United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, Argentina, and our offices in both Tijuana and Mexico City, Mexico. Other delegates from Peru and Argentina were unable to make it when their visas were denied for travel to Mexico. It seems …
Toronto: It was a relief to walk out of the airport into the night air of Toronto on a late July evening after record breaking heat waves in Phoenix, Chicago, and everywhere we turned and find a cool breeze coming off the lake into Toronto and to suck in the air without a straw for the …
Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic: Santo Domingo is something else again! We flew two hours to the east and south into another time zone – Caracas time in the same way one would say that eastern standard is New York time or Central Standard is Chicago time – and another world. Here an election is just …