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".
Cartagena Book bans soared in 2024. According to the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, “more than 4,000 unique titles were challenged in public and school libraries in 2023, the most the group has recorded since it began tracking censorship efforts.” For whatever reason, conservatives have been on a tear to police …
Cartagena One of the nice things about taking a vacation, especially at the end of the year, when so many are also away from their work, so not beating down your literal or digital door, is the chance to catch up on some reading on diverse subjects. Recently, a survey indicated that adults from …
Cartagena If social media ever presumed to bring friends and families together, that pretence now seems quaint and ridiculous on so many levels. To pretend otherwise shows our age, nostalgia, and naïveté. The business model is based on exploitation, and those that understand this basic, seemingly foundational, fact weaponize it for their own ends …