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".
Montreal We were meeting on a cold afternoon in the new offices of the Immigrant Workers’ Center with a host of organizations and activists in Montreal much like a “focus” group of sorts on ACORN Canada and ACORN International and how they might fit and contribute to the ongoing work in this great city. People …
Toronto Big news all over the Canadian papers featuring the wild mouthed commentator, author, and right winger, Anne Coulter, and her 3-city tour to speak at Canadian universities and promote her books. I imagine she is happy as a tick on a dog because of all of the publicity, but she seems to be spewing …
New Orleans Packing for the flight to Nairobi over Sunday and Monday, I read with interest a piece in the times about the usual run of charges that companies were charging for use of credit and debit cards outside of the boundaries of the USA covered in the “Your Money” column in the Times by …