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 A recent study produced by Yale researchers had some grim news for people living in New Orleans that can be succinctly summarizes as “run for the hills.” With climate change and water rising, their predictions were dour and put the city with water, water, everywhere by 2100. More than twenty years …
New Orleans Globally, more than 30 cities participated in ACORN’s Beat the Heat Day this summer. Thermometers are clear, regardless of climate naysayers, it’s hotter outside than it has ever been. Tenants need protection and many have joined ACORN campaigns in various countries like Canada and France to demand retrofits to deal with …
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 …