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".
Corvallis Driving through rush hour on both sides of Portland early in the morning in route to Oregon State University I was listening to an interview on KBOO, the 50-year old community radio station broadcasting from that city. The interview was with a professor at Berklee Music College in the Boston area who didn’t teach …
San Pedro Sula Driving through the cities of Honduras, there are stretches that seem like fast food heaven for global companies. It’s hard to know what to make of the many complexes that include Popeye’s, Dunkin Donuts, Subways, and Pizza Hut under the same roof virtually. Traffic is heavy and unregulated. Passing on the highways …
New Orleans When you drive near the river in San Pedro Sula, Honduras and look down along the banks, you can still see signs of the hurricane that swept through the city and the country making tens of thousands homeless almost twenty years ago in 1999. In my first trips to the city as we …