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 Anthropocene is one of those hard words to get your mouth wrapped around at first, as you have flashbacks to high school science classes, but it’s one we’re all going learn to say, happily or not. In short, it’s the name for our epoch, when humans rule the world, arguably without much …
Marble Falls We all know McDonalds. It’s a brand known around the world. The company has made so many billions of hamburgers under the golden arches that they no longer build signs that calculate the numbers. Many today likely don’t realize that they ever did. McDonalds is simply a fact of life. …
New Orleans Starbucks workers in more than sixty stores have filed for representation elections with the NLRB. The company, no doubt looking for a way to pushback, recently fired seven workers in one of its locations in Memphis, Tennessee. They are sending a message, but how are workers and customers supposed to respond …
Marble Falls I admit it. When I started thinking about the day, Novak Djokovic, the deported tennis star and his arrogant and narcissistic vaccination position was on my mind, and how athletes were poor choices as role models in society. Then Martin Luther King, Jr. popped into my head which was a strange combination, despite holiday, but the …
New Orleans Talking to Frank Vogl on Wade’s World he began by making sure I understood that “no offense” was meant, when he said to me, “Suppose you were Vladimir Putin and you had gotten several $100 million from Gazprom, the biggest gas producer in the world, and you wanted to move it out of Russia …