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".
Washington: Sometimes my colleague and comrade, Helene O’Brien, ACORN’s Field Director, kids me by saying, in what I sometimes pretend is sincere sympathy, rather than bitter irony, that, “It’s not easy being, Wade, the chief organizer, is it?” And, in that vein, since I have your attention now that I’m marching as part of the union …
New Orleans: Every so often there is something in the news so compelling and attractive that it is hard to resist. Today, a piece published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, whatever that might be, came to my attention. I hesitate to describe the zany take on reality that attracts them, but it seems there is a “union …
Kolkata: I had met Rabial Mallick earlier this year in the Philippines and knew that he had been involved in building community organizations throughout India from his home base in Kolkata, so high on my “wish” list for this visit was to find him and get a better grasp of the work. I had been virtually …