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".
San Pedro Sula ACORN organizes from two bases, one in Tegucigalpa, the capitol, and the other from San Pedro Sula, the industrial powerhouse of the country. As part of our registration, we are required to have an Annual General Meeting. On one level, it’s sort of a pain, but it forces me to saddle …
Tegucigalpa There were six of us in the ACORN delegation. The president of ACORN Honduras Raul Rodriguez led the group, along with Erlyn Perez, ACORN’s head organizer, followed by two school principals who were ACORN members, Jany Montoya, the translator and Erlyn’s niece, and me. Our mission was to try to meet with …
Tegucigalpa The big Pharma and medical rationale for the opioid crisis has been that they were trying to create real options to deal with pain management that had been neglected virtually forever. Maybe, but the money was too good and the controls nonexistent, and now there are a million dead from overdoses over the …