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".
Outside of Frome, England Once a year we try to bring as many of ACORN International’s organizing staff together as we can muster given the costs in time and travel. For years we would meet in Latin America somewhere: Mexico City, Quito, Lima, Tegucigalpa, and San Pedro Sula. As we have expanded in Europe, …
New Orleans Before you say anything, let me be clear. We’re big Al Green fans. Huge, simply, huge! Houston’s Democratic Congressman Al Green has been our go-to-guy for the last dozen years, whenever Local 100 United Labor Unions or ACORN needed help on anything, anytime. When there was a resolution in Congress to ban ACORN, …
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/All_that_we_are.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There was an intriguing and in some ways unsettling piece in the New York Times recently about the growing power of Facebook and friends called “The Ads That Know Everything” by Burt Helm. The title of the piece in the online version lowered the “fright” …