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 What’s the old saying? An enemy of my enemy is my friend. Something like that, I think. All of which made reading some parts of a piece on Lauren Windsor’s almost one-woman campaign to pop James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas and zing conservative Republicans a guilty pleasure. It seems that Windsor …
New Orleans Evidence of the death march of the zombie bankers continues as they desperately try to shore up balance sheets based on non-existent assets with continued predatory cannibalization of homeowners through blatant home invasions and foreclosure seizures. Two more stories provide more evidence of both the criminal conspiracy and the banks blatant lying that …
New Orleans Reports from Bloomberg News and the Los Angeles Times are raising the specter of Bank of America filing for bankruptcy for its Countrywide mortgage unit detonating the “nuclear” option to save the parent company and run from the toxic mortgage load bought in 2008. I wonder if this doesn’t finally give another explanation …