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 Section 8 is the key housing assistance support for lower income tenants in the United States. As public housing has been gutted over the last generation, the only real lifeline for lower income tenants has been Section 8. The waiting lists for such vouchers are extensive in city after city. Even with …
New Orleans Protest and protesting is deeply embedded in America history, whether popular or not. Professor Gloria Browne-Marshall, a constitutional law and Africana studies professor at John Jay College, part of the City University of New York, channeled her personal history and took on the mammoth task to write A Protest History of …
Baltimore Many Americans may not have skin in the war with Iran in the way of earlier conflicts during the last one-hundred years, but the distance from the war may be coming home anyway. A longtime friend and comrade reported gassing up his car in North Carolina yesterday, while trying to get ahead of …