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".
Lima, Peru: Six months before I had been in Lima with Donna Bransford, Director of ACORN International, to help in opening the office of ACORN Peru and install our organizer, Isabel Diaz, and meet with our partner organizations, FEMOCCPAALC, who we call the Comodores, and FENTAP, the federation of water worker unions in Peru. This time …
San Francisco: This is the season when the blue of the morning sky is at its darkest and most beautiful blue an hour before dawn. This morning the wind had been shaking the hotel room and on the bay the waves were whipping and gulls were flying in place and making no progress. Closer to …
New Orleans Protest and protesting is deeply embedded in America history, whether popular or not. Professor Gloria Browne-Marshall, a constitutional law and Africana studies professor at John Jay College, part of the City University of New York, channeled her personal history and took on the mammoth task to write A Protest History of …