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".
Porto Alegre: The World Social Forum is a hulky, ungainly, and thrilling piece of work. At one level it is a constant frustration where nothing is every where you hope to find it, yet everything is happening both everywhere at once and no where you can find. In 2003 in Porto Alegre the last …
New Orleans: Every year for a million years — certainly close to 30 years or so — the organizational staff that make up the ACORN family of organizations — ACORN, ACORN International, AHC, SEIU Locals 880 and 100, KABF, KNON, CCI, and a score of others — come together for what we call the YE/YB …
Fresno: I took a detour this week between meetings in Washington, DC, and San Francisco to stop in Fresno, California in the midpoint of the state, and get a lift 45 minutes out of town into the foothills to look at an operation called Sun Mountain (http://www.sunmt.org/). I first met George Ballis a couple of decades …