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 Since 2019, the Voter Purge Project, a partnership between ACORN International, Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center, and the Ohio Voter Project, have embraced the tedious, but essential, task of processing the pure voter lists produced by election officials around the country and distributed by Secretaries of State. At this point, …
Pearl River As Chief Organizer of ACORN all of these years, I’ve been fortunate to know hundreds of great community and organizational leaders at the country, state, and local level. The ones I would know best were the leaders elected to represent their division of the organization. I would see them at board meetings, …
Pearl River Sitting on a dock by Cowen Bayou, only less than a mile from Pearl River, I’m only about 20-miles from Kiln, Mississippi in Hancock County. Favre is a big name in this area. The front page of the Sea Coast Echo had a story about Eddie Favre, the county administrator retiring after …