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".
New Orleans Buried in my stacks of old papers have been some nuggets of gold, and one was an op-ed written by Peter Buffett in the Times entitled “The Charitable-Industrial Complex.” Buffett is identified as “a composer and a chairman of the NoVo Foundation,” but is clear that what gets him a seat at the …
Little Rock Immigrants to the United States, Canada, and Europe from Somalia, Bangladesh, Haiti, and Nigeria where banking systems are unstable or virtually nonexistent are about to face expensive and difficult burdens as more banks curtail money transfer services for fear of running afoul of thorny terrorism regulations. The British-based bank, Barclays, has announced that …
It’s interesting how sometimes when you are searching for one thing, you can stumble on another, almost randomly, and then find yourself wondering if it was coincidence or maybe the hand of fate. I thought about this while flying to San Pedro Sula in Honduras for a meeting with ACORN International organizers recently, as I read a strange and interesting document called, …