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 Recently, I called out Florida and the efforts of Governor Ron DeSantis and his crew to try and put their finger on the scale to prejudice Florida voters in favor of choice on pregnancy by injecting a fake speculation of the cost to the state if the measure passed. I thought they …
New Orleans Some of this media handwringing by reporters about the alleged absence of leaders of what they call the left is actually amusing. Their real complaint is that they don’t have some ready person they can call for quotes on their stories and puff up as a leader, whether or not the …
New Orleans I’m a fan of Zeynep Tufekci, a professor specializing in studying social movements and more recently a sometimes columnist for the New York Times. Regularly, she has been spot-on in her analysis of the real factors behind movements. She doesn’t worship at the throne of social media as a substitute for …