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".
Delhi Often coming back from foreign travel, I would answer my father’s questions when I would return when he would ask me to tell him something that would interest him about that country. Having been in India on the birthday he shared with George Washington, which we used to kid him was his …
New Orleans After three straight days of meetings, first an exciting one-day long training workshop with frontline leaders and activists in the Gulf Coast facing climate change and its threats, and then two intense days of staff meetings, you could have wrung me out like an old dishrag. I was beat. Luckily, as …
Mexico City Dealing with all of the different predatory pitfalls involving delayed payment or credit alternatives is a financial whack-a-mole. One day, you win some restrictions or limits on payday lending, and something else pops up and you have to corral installment loans. Try to win limits on these usurious interest rates and suddenly you …