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 At the end of the directors’ meeting in Toronto at a pub around the corner to where we had been staying in the summer housing at Toronto Metropolitan University, there were signs along the patio wall advertising a host of local beers. There was a metallic sign for Fat Tire with …
Pearl River More than 150,000 people have signed a petition begun by a Black church to boycott Target department and multipurpose stores, because of their abandonment of their diversity, equity, and inclusion or DEI program. I haven’t been in a Target for years, and I’m definitely not going in there now. Organizers note that …
New Orleans We’re learning some interesting things about podcasts these days thanks to Joe Rogan, the popular conservative talker, and Neil Young, the iconic rocker from back in the day. Many of these lessons we already knew, but some are new. Even in the age of social media communication, it is hard …