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 On a clear night in the predawn with a new moon, if you’re sleeping in, you’re missing some thrills by not looking up at the stars, if you can get some distance from light pollution. Lucha, my Australian Shepherd, and I were out and about along the Gulf Coast in just such …
New Orleans The Grassroots Radio Conference is an interesting confederation of progressive, noncommercial community radio stations from around the country. Annually, they have a conference. I spoke at one some years ago in Portland and showed part of The Organizer movie. I didn’t make it to the conference in Louisville, but bought the t-shirt. …
New Orleans The corruption indictment on a bunch of nasty counts of bribes, influence peddling, and campaign finagling didn’t come as a surprise to read in the Times. For daily readers, it seemed like one shoe after another was dropping around him and had been doing so for a good part of his …