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 After twenty years, the two-million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) issued a press release quoting its new president, April Verret, saying that after twenty years, the union is rejoining the AFL-CIO. This is news, but it also one of those things where one would nod and say, “it was just …
New Orleans We’ve worried with this problem in the past, but it seems to be getting worse. The Washington Post has stirred the pot again with a series of maps, that weren’t in the print edition, but that powerfully flesh out the issue of RealPage and others contracting with big landlords to use …
New Orleans We’re on the countdown to the inauguration and the coming years of Trump II, so a huge cloud of uncertainty is hanging over millions of immigrants in the United States, because of Trump’s deportation threats and indications of a return to Phoenix Sheriff Arpaio-style interrogations and harassment over any suspected of …