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 It’s a good thing that President Biden is getting a rock star welcome in Israel from all reports, because, fair or not, he’s getting a beating in the good ol’ USA. The sharks are swimming all around him and the water is roiling. The Washington chattering class is marking his birthdays …
New Orleans Through the Workers Organizing Support Center we are regularly in touch with workers at the nation’s dollar stores. All of which made us pleased to read the long story in The American Prospect featuring the work and activism emerging as these workers start to organize. As Bryce Covert points out, Employees …
Pearl River Much of the point that Bob Keefe makes about climate is embedded right in his word coinage: climatenomics. The heart of his argument is that economics is now about climate and that the efforts to deal with climate change will increasingly be driven by economics. Putting a finer point on climatenomics, Keefe …