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".
Pearl River You can’t make this stuff up. Here’s a true story from radio land that intersects the politics and horror of our times. Pat Ward has a show called “Arkansas Speaks” on KABF-FM, the 100,000-watt station AM/FM manages in Little Rock, Arkansas. Sister Ward is an old school Black Republican. The show tends …
Pearl River As the years pass by, one after another, in this work we sometimes come to a fuller understanding of the meaning of the word “bittersweet.” It’s a funny word. How can something be both bitter and sweet? I thought of this a couple of years ago reading a long piece in the …
New Orleans The Anthropocene Alliance, or more easily stated, A2, as we’ve discussed in the past is a national coalition of more than 400 frontline groups brought together largely because of their experiences being on the brunt end of climate change, whether hurricanes, floods, fires, or the like. A2’s annual staff retreat was …