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 Katrina is now more than seventeen years ago. That’s a long time, New Orleans should be way over the storm by now. Unfortunately, people are still trying to get home. Others are still in the half-life of rebuilding from paycheck to paycheck. The Lower 9th Ward, home of low-and-moderate, working Black …
Pearl River Having navigated hospice care for my mother several years ago, I thought I had a fairly good grasp of how it worked and who benefited, but that didn’t quite prepare me for reading “Endgame: How the Visionary Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle” in The New Yorker. As soon as I hit …
New Orleans There’s no getting around it: coal is a problem. Everyone seems to know the climate and coal are oil and water; a toxic and fatal mix. Yet for all of the scientific evidence and national promises from one country after another, coal is still burning bright. Part of the current slippage …