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".
Carlsbad There’s a lot of back and forth in the news about whether the sanctions being employed fiercely by the western world as a weapon to pressure Russia over its invasion of Ukraine will work. The theory would be that sanctions on close associates of Russian leader Putin among the rich oligarchs, military, and …
Carlsbad, NM While reading about the cyberattacks, front and center, as well as out of sight, in the terrible Russian invasion of Ukraine as I flew to El Paso, I noticed an interesting piece in a recent Economist entitled “Skywaves and Satellites: Technologies old and new may help keep …
New Orleans I was curious when a promoter pitched a story to me about Western Sahara. What did I know about that area? Nothing! I thought, heck, ACORN organizes in Africa in Kenya, Cameroon, Liberia, Tunisia, and has begun in Nigeria, and maybe sometime soon in Uganda, this is an opportunity to learn …