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 Here in the US South in what some call God’s country, as if there might be such a thing, one place that comes close to being ubiquitous is Waffle House and its over 2000 locations, the vast majority located here. I’ve spent some time over the years in Waffle Houses, so seeing …
New Orleans The British have a raucous political tradition that amazingly continues to endure, called “question period.” The Prime Minister de jure takes questions from the opposition leader and parliamentarians on both sides of the aisle who hoot and holler from the back benches as if they were at a local football, which is …
New Orleans – I’ve booked my tickets to India in about one month, not having been there for almost eight years due to visa problems. I follow the country closely, given ACORN’s more than 50,000 members there in some of the world’s largest cities. I wonder what I’ll find in the country that Prime Minister …