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".
Ocean Springs Congress in the first recission or clawback of a legislatively approved appropriation since 1999 under President Clinton canceled $9 billion in funding for foreign aid, which included more than one-billion for public broadcasting, targeting NPR and PBS. Defunding public broadcasting has been on the conservative wish list since the Nixon administration. Republican …
New Orleans Johnnie Pugh, a longtime member and leader of ACORN in Arkansas, passed away. Anyone who has seen the documentary, The Organizer, will remember her as a star talking about having joined in 1971 and working with Gloria Benson Wilson. Gloria was elected to the Little Rock city director seat, that Johnnie …
New Orleans Recently, in response to a bit of push and shove from the Trump administration and its compliant appointees, the IRS announced that churches will now be able to make political endorsements to its members. There wasn’t much attention given to this announcement. Most commentators simply shrugged, since mostly the restriction against …