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".
Prague Meeting with 15 people in the AKORN Gallery in Praha 2, near the center of town, on a cool, but surprisingly clear evening, there was great good will but it was not always easy going. The ACORN, or AKORN as they call it here, activists and organizers were enthusiastic and had invited others to …
Edinburgh The Internal Revenue Service apologized for batching up 300 applications for 501c4 tax exempt status when groups had Tea Party or Patriot in their names, claiming they were flooded with 2600 applications and their lower level pencil pushers were just trying to figure out a short cut. Conservatives and their Congressional allies screamed like …
Little Rock The good news for the Remittance Justice Campaign in recent weeks has been significant. The bill was reintroduced in Ontario to cap the cost of remittances at 5% in line with the G-8 large industrial countries and World Bank goals. Studies by students at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and the Georgia State …