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 During this year’s US Independence Day, I was in London speaking to ACORN members there and answering questions, following a screening of the The Organizer, about ACORN history among other things. I was asked whether ACORN, at the national or international level, used patriotism as an organizing tool or principle. The …
New Orleans I’ve been beating the drum about the barriers to health insurance that deductibles and co-pays cause for lower wage workers and low-and-moderate income families in general for years, because the compromises involved in the passage of the Affordable Care Act didn’t cap them at all, yet allowed employers to claim compliance, …
Pearl River Almost everyone with an ounce of common sense knows that the climate is changing. We might be tired of talking about it and discouraged at how little is being done about it, but there’s no escaping the fact that it’s jumping out at us everywhere we look around, even in places we …