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".
Marble Falls Every once in a while, as I scoot between train stations in Europe or the UK, oblivious to the many of the stops, I’ll jump off the platform into some car going the wrong or opposite direction. None of this is lifechanging. Maybe it adds 30 or 60 minutes. Just another …
Pearl River Recently in a meeting of ACORN organizers from Canada and the United States, our solidarity guests two organizers we had worked with throughout the year, including a month of training for one in Toronto. They had been applying the ACORN organizing model to build something called the Philadelphia Lot Tenders Union. Talking …
Pearl River There’s a lot of heavy breathing about a union-backed ballot proposition in California that would apply a one-time tax on billionaires. Some billionaires seem upset about paying the tax. The founders of Google have attracted a lot of attention claiming they are moving to Florida and elsewhere. These were the same guys …