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 In training organizers, one thing I always remind them as they begin an organizing drive in a neighborhood, housing block, or workplace is to always ask and listen carefully when they talk to people, so that they can unearth what has come before them in this struggle. In my book, a …
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 …