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".
Pearl River Gautam Adani is perhaps the 2nd richest billionaire in India and one of the richest people in the world. ACORN follows his activity closely, because the Adani Group won the tender in Mumbai to implement an extensive proposal to redevelop the Dharavi community, often labeled the largest megaslum in Asia, where we …
New Orleans Our regular, monthly check-in on the progress of ACORN Honduras is usually a straightforward report leaning more to “just the facts, ma’am.” Not this time, events in Honduras weren’t exactly front page news, but that didn’t mean they weren’t right up there for a change. In case you wondered, the election …
Pearl River The obituary for H. Rap Brown, now know as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, was on the front page of the New York Times. He had died in prison at 84 years old, where he had been for some years, convicted controversially for shooting some deputy process servers at his store in the Atlanta …