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".
Pearl River Polls are tricky barometers of public sentiment these days. We hardly know which ones, if any, to believe. People don’t respond anymore, and those that do may not be representative. It’s a bit like allowing Iowa and New Hampshire to pretend to speak for America. Nonetheless, President Biden has been battered by …
New Orleans If Marie Antionette on the eve of the French Revolution really said, “let them eat cake,” she was one up on fifteen Republican governors who have now rephrased that expression for lower income children this summer, saying “let them eat nothing.” In fact, one of the motivations for the Biden administration’s …
New Orleans We visited with an old comrade from the earliest days of ACORN between 1970-73. She had been one of the first VISTA volunteers that I was able to repurpose as organizers on our first organizing drives. She reminded me that she had also opened up the Fort Smith office and launched …