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".
Marble Falls In our house, we don’t buy bread. Part of the reason is that mi companera is allergic to wheat, so if were just me, coming and going, it could end up a high school science project on mold. It wouldn’t though, because I don’t eat bread, at least not at home. …
New Orleans, I don’t know much about the Southern Poverty Law Center. Sure, I’ve gotten their fundraising solicitations, but that just makes me the same as most Americans this side of Attila the Hun. Visiting Montgomery, Alabama, some years ago with my son, I was surprised to see their big, fancy building, but …
New Orleans I had mixed feelings when I opened The New Yorker when I saw there was a long piece by Patrick Radden Keefe with the eyebrow “Letter from New Orleans.” On one hand, it was crack, there was no way that I wasn’t excited to read whatever it might have been about. …