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 A lot of companies have been moving their corporate offices and re-registering in states that are more business-friendly moving from California and Delaware for example to Texas, where everything seems to go their way. Target, the huge retailer, is based in Minnesota, where it has its deep roots. Given the way Minnesota …
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 …