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 Stir up a perfect gumbo with ExxonMobil and climate change activists, and what can go wrong, right? In a convoluted “who shot John” story recently in the Journal, it seems perhaps thousands of climate campaigns may have been targeted by hackers from India employed by an Israeli private detective named Aviram Azari …
New Orleans We could be in the middle of a huge social change in the urban environment and among city dwellers that is either happening now, or on the verge of erupting or blossoming, depending on your point of view, right in front of us. I’m talking about the twins never separated for long …
Marble Falls I read some of the opinion pieces that rural electric co-op leaders offer their members through their monthly combo-newsletters and ad-sheets. I sometimes find myself scratching my head as I read these editorial-propaganda pieces. I do so not necessarily because of what they are saying, but because of what they are deliberately …