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".
July 17, 2021 Lake Burton, Georgia There’s a contradiction at work in thinking about culture and cancelling. Culture is usually seen as something fairly immutable, something of the infrastructure of a people. It’s not impervious to change, but change doesn’t come easily to something so firmly rooted. Modernity and technology force adaptations and shocks …
New Orleans Throughout the country parents, teacher unions, and community groups have been opposing the viral spread of privatization of public school systems and the efforts of charter school operators to expand their footprint in school districts. Perhaps the most controversial maneuvers are the state takeovers of local public school districts by removing duly elected …
New Orleans Doing a little research and realizing that Betsy DeVos, the Michigan-based Republican fundraiser, who is now in line to head the Department of Education, had never attended a public school but only religiously oriented institutions straight through college, made me raise my eyebrows a bit. Reading that in her push towards the disastrous …