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".
Oxford Having breakfast at the University of Memphis before leaving for Oxford, Mississippi, home of the University of Mississippi, we were in a good mood after the Hooks Institute event the previous evening. We laughed at the number of people in the audience that evening who had raised their eyebrows when we had told …
Memphis The ACORN Canada organizing staff held its Year End/Year Begin staff meeting in Memphis with a side trip to Little Rock this year. Among the highlights of the meetings in Memphis were visits at the University of Memphis with ex-Texas and South Dakota ACORN organizer, Steve Soifer, now head of the Social Work Department …
Delhi I may be walking at dawn with the elderly Indians in the M-Block welfare association park as they do their yoga, clap, laugh, and ommm or I can watch the bamboo frame for a puja tent going up for a coming celebration, but when I look at my email, it’s all still about …