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 Trump’s Iranian war yo-yo continues to move up and down. Iran hunkered down. The Hormuz Strait still closed and others endangered. Oil back up again to $90 a barrel for Brent Crude. The stalemate continues, the bad news pours like rain. But, wait, there’s good news in some of the unintended …
New Orleans One of ACORN’s organizers from the Alps/Rhone region of France, running from the fires towards his annual holiday, was in Leeds, England the other day visiting the ACORN staff there. They took him out on the doors. The Yorkshire accent was challenging, he reported to me on Zoom. He wasn’t sure …
New Orleans Louisiana is not a rich state, despite bounteous natural resources. That’s a long story, not a short one. Richland Parish in the northern part of the state not too far from Monroe is the opposite of a rich land. Farming isn’t great. The years have not been kind to many of …