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 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 …
New Orleans Just when it seemed safe to leave home and the office without looking under ever rock and cranny, the little monsters are back. Just when it seemed Project Veritas had lost its last scammer director, expelled James O’Keefe, and was near bankruptcy, they are back with their evil work inventing rightwing …