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 October 15, 2011 was our first day running Fair Grinds Coffeehouse in New Orleans, the only 100% fairtrade coffeehouse in the city. The name, we inherited with the sale, was a mashup of fairtrade coffee, and the fact that we were only a couple of blocks from the Fair Grounds horse …
Pearl River I can’t be the only one in the world who is just soooo tired of Elon Musk other than everyone who still works directly for Twitter. He just talks and talks and talks, but what does it all add up to other than endless self-promotion of his narcissistic shtick? I’m not saying …
Pearl River No doubt about it, medical debt is a big thing. It’s a case in point of how our old Latin teacher, a polio victim, used to define a coup de grace as “kicking a cripple.” Someone is in desperate medical condition at the emergency room of a hospital or the admitting desk …
Pearl River Veritas means truth in Latin. Project Veritas means untruth in English. One thing that is proven to be true once again is that “what goes around, comes around.” James O’Keefe, the hyper-conservative provocateur, specializes in the faux expose and supposed scandal with one organization or individual after another, including most tragically …
Pearl River Once again, after having been given up for dead, just like he was in the Presidential primaries before South Carolina, the early reports of Joe Biden’s demise are premature. Not counting a couple of Covid-cases, he’s had a resurrection summer, remarkable for having pulled victories out of the jaws of defeat. Huge …