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".
Adirondacks Reading the papers here and there in our polarized country, I was recently struck by how unimaginatively schoolyard is the discourse. I think it was Louisiana’s own rightwing bat-crazy Congressman Higgins who called for the New Orleans Public Health department to be defunded by the federal and state government based on its …
New Orleans A federal judge in California has finally issued a ruling on the unprecedented deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles. Trump claimed this deployment was necessary because there was an “immigrant invasion.” The judge found no evidence of insurrection. He addressed 1878 Posse Comitatus Act as well and its clarity …
Pearl River Labor and the unions that represent American workers have quickly gone from the most union-friendly president in the last 50 years or more to the most union-unfriendly president in probably one-hundred years. It’s a little bit like celebrating Labor Day from a hospital bed. We’re glad to be alive, but, boy, are …