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".
June 30, 2021 New Orleans I’d never heard of the Lown Institute or their Shkreli Awards, but they came to my attention from an unlikely, but welcome, source, The National Geographic, in their recent issue. Maybe I should not have been surprised. The Geographic is no longer the animal and exotic picture book …
June 12, 2021 Pearl River In 2002, ACORN, Local 100, the local labor council and a host of others banded together to successfully beat back the privatization of the New Orleans Sewerage & Water system. One thing led to another, and when we started working in Peru, ACORN’s first international project, one of our main …
June 3, 2021 New Orleans The surging Covid-19 crisis in India is impossible to ignore, even as the US, Britain, and even European Union countries are once again opening up after the pandemic. Ironically, India is also home to some the world’s largest manufacturers of vaccines, so how is it possible that even now as …