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 Hurricane Isaias is coming through the Gulf of Mexico and expected to make landfall as a category 3 storm somewhere near Pensacola, Florida. There are storm warnings in a large cone along the Alabama and Florida coasts. Earlier in the week, New Orleans was part of the prediction as the storm gathered. …
New Orleans One of ACORN’s organizers from the Alps/Rhone region of France, running from the fires towards his annual holiday, was in Leeds, England the other day visiting the ACORN staff there. They took him out on the doors. The Yorkshire accent was challenging, he reported to me on Zoom. He wasn’t sure …
Pearl River A picture in the Times caught my eye. The caption indicated that people were jogging on Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County. The article wasn’t really about the beach so much as it was about the fact that Trump and his Energy Department had used his Iran war to trigger the …