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".
May 1, 2022 Pearl River May Day is a celebration of worker solidarity all around the world. In the USA, not so much. We pretend we honor workers on Labor Day, but mainly that’s an excuse for a holiday and maybe a picnic with real workers’ celebrations more a memory than a movement. What …
New Orleans Our major project to prevent voter suppression is called the Voter Purge Project. We have been processing the voter files for all registered voters in 27 states, about 140 million voters, for the last several years. This effort was key moving into 2020, and seems to be as critical as we …
Pearl River Day after day, Elon Must has jabbed and feinted at Twitter. He was a big stockholder suddenly. He was going on the board. Dance like a butterfly, sting like a bee, he was going to buy the whole shebang for $44 billion. Now the news is full of questions about what he’s …