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 There’s nothing good about having your home and neighborhood flooded. It’s critical to know the risks, even if you accept them with your eyes open. In New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina and many before and after that, have taught us lessons in both preparation for disasters, as well as what we might …
Catania Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans on September 9, 1965, days after I had begun my senior year in high school. Those were the old days when school didn’t start until after Labor Day. The night the hurricane came, our whole family stayed, along with others, in the city’s central business district on the …
Pearl River Working with a newly emerging coalition of membership-based groups, Arkansas Grassroots United, that was organized by the Anthropocene Alliance and ACORN, their first public event, coinciding with the global Beat the Heat Day on July 23rd , is a sign-on letter to federal political officials and the president. Maybe that’s something you …