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 No one should ever forget that the most stable and sustainable driver of the New Orleans economy is neither tourism nor conventions, but rests in no small measure on the Mississippi River as a port city. Barges of grain and other goods coming down, ships filled with coffee and everything else …
New Orleans Greenpeace is well known around the world as an activist environmental organization over the last more than fifty years. Internationally, it’s based in the Netherlands, but has huge branches in many countries. To say the organization is high-profile is almost an understatement. Its ships have tried to stop nuclear testing, been …
Miami, Oklahoma We were in the Arkansas Ozarks less than three hours drive from Miami, Oklahoma in Ottawa County in the northeastern part of that state, so it made sense to take the opportunity to visit with the Local Environmental Action Demanded (LEAD) Agency based there. L.E.A.D. Agency is one of the dozen or …