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 Living in cities, especially on the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast, and even along the bayous and rivers of the region, we are acclimated to certain patterns of nature. We watch the water rising in the bayou when there are storms in the Gulf. We know how to respond to …
Marble Falls The sixties get a lot of play in the memory and memoirs bank, deservedly. A lot was happening around cultural and political changes as the civil rights movement tailed off, the welfare rights movement and anti-poverty efforts ascended, and the Vietnam antiwar protests hit their zenith. The early 70’s doesn’t get …
Marble Falls Cyndi Lauper had a big hit with a song called “True Colors,” one of the few that she didn’t write on her big album. The refrain was sticky: I’ll see your true colors Shining through I see your true colors If you’re paying attention, we’re seeing a lot of folks’ true …