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 A lot of companies have been moving their corporate offices and re-registering in states that are more business-friendly moving from California and Delaware for example to Texas, where everything seems to go their way. Target, the huge retailer, is based in Minnesota, where it has its deep roots. Given the way Minnesota …
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 …