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 The cover of the most recent conservative-liberal magazine, The Economist, said two words: “Israel Alone.” The Times reports that a dozen “liberal” organizations from the Working Families Party to the DC-based Citizens for American Progress, along with two unions, the National Education Association and the Service Employees International Union have written President Biden …
Pearl River Our daughter lives around the corner from us and our son lives up the block. I see my son regularly, because we work together in several of our family of organizations. When my daughter was in high school and I would be in town and driving her to school, we would have a …
New Orleans ACORN has often been critical of the United Way and its corporate coziness for contributions supporting band-aid services, rather than real change for lower-income families. In the early days of the organization in Arkansas, our members even did an action at one of their local fundraising lunches where they voiced demands …