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 Dealing with the pandemic in the most basic ways has been a struggle for the last more than eighteen months for people all around the world. The health impacts have been devasting. In the United States, over 650,000 have died from the virus, eclipsing any other pandemic in our history now. …
Pearl River No question. Climate change is a big deal. For every hurricane alert, storm warning, and sudden street flooding, environmental consciousness is rising as quickly as the wind and water. If a lot of people care about something, then here come the scammers and marketeers, because, hey, this is America, land of the …
Pearl River Talking to Sydnee Blum, ACORN’s head organizer in eastern Canada on Wade’s World , she told a shocking story of a member in one of the neighborhoods who was paying rent of $1000 CN per month. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, landlords can only raise rent once per year. She got a notice of …
New Orleans The pictures spoke louder than the words. On the front pages of papers around the country and the world, you could see the heels and toes of one foot after another in the arid sands. No shoes here, but these were indeed long fellows, at least now as the ages …
New Orleans There’s a bit of dark humor we often engage in when we joke for one reason or another about big tech that “we’re just living in their world.” We’re talking about the ubiquitous conglomerates including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google, or Alphabet if you will. In modern daily life …