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 When your name comes up in Google Alerts, it’s good to know what’s out there in the world, but mostly my advice from years of experience as often a pin cushion for right wing zealots, conspiratory hunters, and conservative crazies is to treat it like water off a duck’s back. Yawn, …
New Orleans All of a sudden ACORN’s Latin American WhatsApp group was blowing up. Honduras was reaching out to Peru with concern. Even with my rough reading of Spanish, I could tell there was big trouble. At first, I thought the unpopular president had been assassinated, but a closer reading and some Google …
New Orleans So much of modern technology seems to only serve the systems and their owners, if they have any, in the name of efficiency and cost saving, that when any of us stumble on something that undoubtedly does both of those things for the company, but also actually, lo and behold, serves …