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".
Sometimes the only way to really understand what we are accomplishing in our community organizing with ACORN International is to get squarely on the ground with the organizers and members and get to the heart of what is on their minds, their fights, and sometimes their victories. After a two hour ride from the Capitol …
Buenos Aires One of the flash points in the USA immigration reform debate continues to be over the demand from farmers for help in their fields from migrant agricultural workers. Recently they left the Republican (and Obama Administration) consensus in droves as US-farmer organizations and Congresspeople bridled at the fact that employers, i.e. farmers, would …
Buenos Aires Today ACORN International released a shocking report, Mega Troubles for Microfinance (www.acorninternational.org), as the result of months and years of first skepticism and now study of the claims and contradictions of the industry. In a letter to policy makers, politicians, and development agencies throughout the world, signed by ACORN International President Kay Bisnah …