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 No one should ever forget that the most stable and sustainable driver of the New Orleans economy is neither tourism nor conventions, but rests in no small measure on the Mississippi River as a port city. Barges of grain and other goods coming down, ships filled with coffee and everything else …
Pearl River The ACORN Voter Purge Project is now in the process of emailing more than 2 million voters that have been made inactive and purged in battleground states. Georgia and Pennsylvania are the first drops currently on their way out. The emails link the voter to the Secretary of State’s website in order to …
Catania If there is one thing about the climate fight that has become certain, it is that business and governmental leaders are not going to move quickly, unless they feel the heat coming up from the grassroots. Talking recently on Wade’s World to climate warriors in Birmingham, Alabama, and Jackson, Mississippi, it is clear …