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 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 …
New Orleans I’m still trying to make heads or tails of the US economy these days. Everyone I talk to has a beef, whether about rent, gas, food, or whatever, and they’re head scratching, even as the prices go down. All of our organizations are trying to figure out how to handle wages …
Marble Falls Trumpism is hard to define, perhaps impossible, largely because it’s mainly about whatever former President Donald Trump says or thinks at the time, which may be changing by the minute or more likely by his last breath spitting out the words. Regardless of whether it’s possible to define Trumpism, it’s definitely …