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 Sitting in the jury pool in Orleans Parish Criminal Court and watching each case tainted by a touch with drugs and the huge waste of police and court resources and being force to think for hours at a time about exactly what I thought about the huge divisions and lack of security in the …
New Orleans ACORN International’s Remittance Justice Campaign has begun to pick up steam. A private member’s bill to cap rates has now been introduced in Queen’s Park for the Ontario provincial government. Similar efforts are being pushed in British Columbia and later this year legislators have committed to introducing measures in Honduras and perhaps …
Mumbai This was a different visit to ACORN’s organizing in Dharavi. In the year since I had been here the Mumbai water & sewer system had implemented their plan to clear away 10 meters on either side of their huge drainage pipes thereby eliminating hundreds of residents and our original offices overlooking the pipes. We …