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 There have always been restrictions on what can be bought with food stamps. Booze, beer, and cigarettes have always been banned, but the new bans are extensive, arbitrary, and paternalism on steroids. Sure, sugar isn’t good for people, neither is soda pop, but is this really and truly about what’s best for …
Pearl River Everywhere you go, everything you read, combines to convince all of us that it’s a brave new world. Robots and artificial intelligence are coming and companies sing a chorus of how good it’s going to be for all of us. Listening to Local 100’s staff on our weekly roundup call made me …
Pearl River Wade’s World, my weekly radio show, usually focuses on organizing, politics, and whatever else might come across my desk or cause some brainwaves to heat up for me. One of the bookers and public relations people who pitches me from time to time knew I would have trouble saying no to talking …