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".
Pearl River The funny thing about power is that it is never absolute. Even when you have a lot of it and want more, having power is predicated on the base. What goes around, eventually does come around, if the rich and powerful forget about or neglect the base. They have to have significant …
Pearl River I try to imagine the readership of the New York Times, both in print and online. I wonder how many read past the headline of an op-ed piece that announces that the federal food stamp program is only designed to provide $6 per day. The pull quote announces that “Requiring people to …
New Orleans There’s nothing like federal immigration officials doing mass arrest roundups in workplaces, especially in urban America, to get everyone out in the streets. What Trump and his mad dog aide, Stephen Miller, don’t understand is how embedded immigrants, undocumented and not, are in American communities, workplaces, and families. These are not …