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 Reading the paper, the polls seem to be weakening on whether or not the radicalism of the Supreme Court and some of its supporters in the overturning of Roe v. Wade is nationally a wedge issue or only in some local races. We’ll know soon enough as the countdown to the …
New Orleans Since 2019, the Voter Purge Project, a partnership between ACORN International, Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center, and the Ohio Voter Project, have embraced the tedious, but essential, task of processing the pure voter lists produced by election officials around the country and distributed by Secretaries of State. At this point, …
New Orleans I get emails from a coalition called One Fair Wage, largely because our now shuttered Fair Grinds Coffeehouses were members of ROC, the Restaurant Opportunity Centers, which drives that alliance. In a recent bulletin they were heralding a front-page article in the New York Times and taking credit for feeding the …