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 Doing this report with one finger and that pretty much sucks, but your correspondent continues to do fieldwork from the healthcare front, but I’ll keep it short if I can. As we’ve discussed in the past, our organizations have been doing research on hospitals for the past number of years. After bring phenomenally lucky, I …
New Orleans Five weeks after Hurricane Ida hit the city on the anniversary of Katrina’s arrival, August 29th, we are still in recovery, though we have made progress. Elections were postponed, but they are coming in another month or so. Garbage is starting to be picked up. Branches and other trash may …
New Orleans It may be high-low bargaining, but at least progressives played their hands powerfully in order to get to try to get to the maximum number on Biden’s so-called social services infrastructure bill, retailed at $3.5 trillion. Pramila Jayapal, Democratic Congresswoman from Seattle, and head of the 100-member Progressive Caucus in the …