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 No matter how many times we had gone over the dates for the annual general meeting of ACORN Honduras or doublechecked the time of the meeting, where I would pick up the San Pedro Sula delegates, and when they would be in the central park, don’t ever think with our language barriers that …
New Orleans Crawling deeper and deeper down the dark hole of cash and corporate home-buying practices recently, one of the big players, previously unknown to me, was Opendoor. When I looked, it seemed like less a source where a prospective buyer would be fronted the cash to make an offer on a house to increase their chances …
New Orleans We can’t seem to get Congress to read the memo and increase the federal minimum wage, but in almost every other way, workers’ wages seem on the rise, and the signs are everywhere. Kellogg workers after two months on strike still voted down a tentative, five-year contract with the company. Not enough money with their …