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".
Marble Falls You can’t make this stuff up. It’s diabolical. You know, we’re talking about deporting immigrants again. This time a plane of immigrants originally from Myanmar and Vietnam, it appears, has landed in South Sudan. Tell the truth. You don’t know much about South Sudan. That’s understandable. It’s the world’s newest country. …
New Orleans Every once in a while, there is a story almost too good to be true, even if it is one of those real-life miracles where the exception proves the rule. I can’t resist the story, even as I concede its improbability. Our union represents sanitation workers in New Orleans. ACORN organizers …
Dallas Looking over at the television in between hockey playoff scores in Calgary before flying home in the predawn, a soundless commercial of some kind was playing. It was hard to figure out without sound, but it became clearer. The video was of three very clean-cut young people doing clean cut regular things. …