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".
Cusco The regular readers are going to pass this blog by and that’s far enough, but I’m going to lay out some travel tips as a public service of sorts for some of the 400,000 visitors to Machu Picchu, one of the wonder’s of the world by any reckoning, who happen to check the internet …
New Orleans Many fronts have only one message: stop the anti-immigrant rage now! Protesters in Chicago showed up at a Cubs versus Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game and said it was time to boycott Arizona. The Major League Players Association has condemned Arizona. The New York Times in a stern and striking editorial yesterday demanded essentially …
Delhi The ACORN India staff in Delhi, Dharmendra Kumar, Om Prakash, and Animesh Halder and me sat around the table at Tej Abode or XY Lodging for almost 6 hours wrestling with organizing plans for the coming months. We framed the demands on a potential Commonwealth Games Campaign including a list of supporters in Delhi …