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 Guilty as charged! I have found myself whining from time to time recently about the circuitous path that young people in the so-called Generation Z were taking into – and out of – organizing. Organizers are often in transition but earlier in this second pandemic year I found myself kvetching to …
Houston At 4:30 AM in the morning, as we pulled up to my son Chaco’s house, he turned to me and said, “We’re not doing this again!” He was right. It was crazy to bolt over, hell for leather, to Houston from New Orleans in time to see the first game of the World …
New Orleans I had the equivalent of one of those Hollywood slap-in-the-face wakeups after giving my son a lift to open up at Fair Grinds Coffeehouse. I was listening to NPR until I could connect to WAMF, and they were running an interview with Zalmay Khalilzad, who, among other jobs, most recently served as a special envoy …