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 Redlining continues to raise its ugly head in the legacy of broken urban neighborhoods in cities across the United States, despite having been mitigated in one way or another over the last fifty years. Classically, redlining was a de facto classification by the government, insurers, and political actors that mapped different …
New Orleans I caught up with the Sunday New York Times late in the day. I flipped through the opinion section quickly, same ol’, same ‘ol, it seemed, smoke signals from distant mountains, largely unseen. I got to the end and noticed a piece by Tracy Kidder, “America is Rewriting the Social Contract.” …
New Orleans Johnnie Pugh, a longtime member and leader of ACORN in Arkansas, passed away. Anyone who has seen the documentary, The Organizer, will remember her as a star talking about having joined in 1971 and working with Gloria Benson Wilson. Gloria was elected to the Little Rock city director seat, that Johnnie …