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".
June 19, 2021 New Orleans Having made it back from the West Coast, where I reprised by annual spring visit, postponed from 2020, until June, I can offer a firsthand report: America is on the move. The planes were jampacked, and flights were double the prices that I remember. Rental cars, same thing. On my …
March 18, 2021 New Orleans I remember well when Montana Peoples’ Action, an ACORN associate organization, and Jim Fleischman, a longtime ACORN organizer, put together tenant associations in a bunch of towns not only in Missoula, but scattered around that part of the state in the late 1980s. I listened with interest more recently …
March 4, 2021 New Orleans One story after another in the mainstream media is now focusing on the shortage of homes for sale in city after city. The curious American dream of homeownership is another endangered species it seems, while at the same time the corporate and private equity grip on rental properties as …