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 year ago, August 26th, Ida pushed us out of New Orleans and all of the surrounding area. Seventeen years ago, Katrina had us running and in some cases swimming against the surge for way too many on August 29th. We never get used to this. It surprises me that anyone …
Lake Stoney, Ontario Maybe it’s not even news, but once again, yet another judge and jury has found rightwing scammer James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas guilty. It’s a drumbeat that won’t stop. They paid damages to ACORN employees in California who they hurt. O’Keefe and his confederates were found guilty for their office tampering in …
New Orleans There seems to be a day for almost everything in these days and times, and my inbox was flooded with notices about a new day, at least to me, which is National Voter Registration Day. Heck, why not?!? It does seem an exercise against the wind. With the right’s drumbeat of …
New Orleans I’ve been clear. I’m still a “More Money Now – Mas Dinero Ahora!” guy, as the welfare rights slogan used to go. That doesn’t mean I’m against work. Just the opposite, but for work to do the trick in dealing with poverty that has to mean …
Pearl River For you to understand why House Resolution 127 passed in the recent session of the Louisiana legislature, as submitted by State Representative Matthew Willard, creating the Louisiana Contraflow Task Force is important, you first have to understand what contraflow is and recognize that in a world of potential climate and related disasters, …