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".
New Orleans I caught up with the Sunday New York Times late in the day. I flipped through the opinion section quickly, same ol’, same ‘ol, it seemed, smoke signals from distant mountains, largely unseen. I got to the end and noticed a piece by Tracy Kidder, “America is Rewriting the Social Contract.” …
Pearl River Working with a newly emerging coalition of membership-based groups, Arkansas Grassroots United, that was organized by the Anthropocene Alliance and ACORN, their first public event, coinciding with the global Beat the Heat Day on July 23rd , is a sign-on letter to federal political officials and the president. Maybe that’s something you …
Pearl River Right this minute, I’m writing under an air conditioning vent with a general fan moving the air along as well. I just bade the repair man adieu minutes ago after having waited for him the last 24-hours. The problem was simple. A power surge had fried a fuse at the unit. For …