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".
Marble Falls Back in the day, we used to call the Economic Policy Institute, the “good EPI”, because there was a rightwing business poser trying to troll them with the same initials, which of course was the “bad” EPI. ACORN tussled with them regularly since they were on the other side of us …
Marble Falls Every once in a while, as I scoot between train stations in Europe or the UK, oblivious to the many of the stops, I’ll jump off the platform into some car going the wrong or opposite direction. None of this is lifechanging. Maybe it adds 30 or 60 minutes. Just another …
Marble Falls I can’t keep from sharing a long “letter” of sorts from the deportation and ICE resistance in Minnesota that ran as an opinion piece in The New York Times by Will McGrath, described there as “an essayist” from Minneapolis. I’ll simply describe him as a resister who shares an insider’s report …