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 Once upon a time, before Trump that is, the qualifications for running for political office were straight forward. You needed to be a citizen of a certain age, depending on the office you were seeking, and in some cases, you needed to have been born in the United States, as Elon …
New Orleans Randy Shaw, director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco, and a longtime colleague and observer of community and political organizing, shared with me his recent column in Beyond Chron. I’m forwarding it on, not just because it mentions ACORN, but more pointedly because Randy issues a call to action that …
New Orleans What a great early summer weekend in America! Father’s Day on Sunday, family all together, canoeing on the bayou, eating bacon with our hands, and making memories. Oh, and before that we had the battle of the band marches, one in Washington, DC, and the other seemingly everywhere across the country. …