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".
April 16, 2021 New Orleans I saw an interesting note recently. Massachusetts, our blue state bastion of liberalism in the usual political polarity debates, finally came on board in classifying public solicitation of funds that some call “begging,” as free speech. In December 2020, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court became the latest state …
Toronto I’ve confessed before that after watching the dissolution of ACORN in the US, I’m now obsessed with self-sufficiency. Philanthropy is too risk adverse and governments are too political vulnerable to be stable funding sources for progressive work. All of which made me eagerly read the piece in the Business section of the New York …
New Orleans I realize this might seem to be a contrarian position, but as an organizer I totally understand – and support — the complex and intricate structure devised by Julian Assange and his associates at Wikileaks. I realize there is some uproar and even internal dissension among the Wikileakers about some of the decisions …