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 Hello, contemporary climate would like to welcome the Trump administration to reality. You thought we weren’t listening to all of this play pretend about climate change isn’t real, disasters won’t happen, and the states could handle everything without our help, didn’t you? We thought we would put on a show about …
New Orleans Trump knows he’s wrong. Killing FEMA would be a human and political disaster. Being asked by reporters whether he still believed ending FEMA was the right move, he clearly was hesitating and rethinking the issue. The terrible tragedy in central Texas due to the flooding of the Guadalupe River and to …
Marble Falls Recently in workshops ACORN has done with the Anthropocene Alliance in New Orleans and Atlanta with more coming soon in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Port Arthur, Texas, we have used a campaign exercise for the small groups about flooding. Many of the participants come from frontline groups that know …