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 It was just a matter of time before the divide within labor once again became impossible to ignore. This time it was about data centers, which have become a full employment program in many areas of the country for the building trades. For those who thrive on any disagreements within organized …
New Orleans This whole Trump colonization effort in Venezuela was already unsettling based on the administration’s chortling about the real mission being to expropriate oil for the US. Usually, the public at least gets some kind of thin rationalization for military action, like saving democracy or protecting human rights. Slapping dollar signs and …
Marble Falls In the way that expressions stick, whether true or not, it’s not hard to hear people of all stripes and persuasions exclaim, “this isn’t my first rodeo!” Every once in a while, I wonder if, in fact, these folks have ever been to a rodeo? For my part, my first, was …