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".
Stockholm Marcus Carson, a former ACORN and Local 100 staffer, has been living in Sweden with his family the last 10 years. He claimed to me last night that Stockholm was a beautiful city. On that, as on so many other things, I’ll have to take his word, because all I know are …
Paris It was not part of the plan, but it seems I’m spending the day in Paris or whatever suburb the Charles DeGaulle International Airport might call home, having flown overnight from Atlanta, landed at 10:30 in the morning this time and now delayed so that I won’t leave here, if lucky, until 6:15 …
New Orleans Still going back and forth between my new “worthless” computer and my old “damaged” computer and trying to synchronize all of the files and information as the ever faithful ACORN tech department pulls the pieces together. None to happy about it, but in doing so it reminds me of tidbits from the …