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 Cuba holds a complicated place in the domestic and international space. It’s food and beaches are huge attractions for Canadians and Europeans, but for more than fifty years the island has existed as contested ground in the United States. Even now with one Cold War over and one seeming to advance rapidly, Cuba, …
Nairobi Here’s the fiction: nonprofit hospitals are dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of their community, regardless of income. Because of this fiction, the IRS grants them a tax-exemption worth approximately $28 billion per year. Here’s the fact: they don’t act that way, especially the larger nonprofit hospital chains. ACORN and our partners, Local …
Nairobi My last visit to our organizers in Kenya was a trip to Nairobi in 2018. The pandemic kept not ending from 2019 forward, so finally we are all trying to come together now five years later. If there are easy ways to travel to Nairobi, I haven’t found them. No US-based airline comes directly …