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 Dealing with the pandemic in the most basic ways has been a struggle for the last more than eighteen months for people all around the world. The health impacts have been devasting. In the United States, over 650,000 have died from the virus, eclipsing any other pandemic in our history now. …
New Orleans These are the tough choices. Hobson’s choices. Devil or the deep blue sea choices. Sacrificing one to save the many, or risking that all die. To read the daily papers is to find the Democrats in their thin majorities now having to bargain with themselves, libs to mods to worse, on …
New Orleans ACORN, Local 100 United Labor Unions, and the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center have been studying hospitals for some years now. First, we looked at charity care in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, and found that if nonprofits with tax exemptions simply hit the average of 4% of gross income as …
Denver This is such a Twilight Zone, unbelievable time that it buggers the imagination, but in reality, there are constant reminders that politics, and especially the lawmaking that politics sometimes produces, is not easily adaptable to remote work, but remains in-person business. A Republican state senator in Alaska is finding this out the hard …
Missoula In yet another fragmenting of the power and responsibility of the state, we’re seeing repeated issues where our very modern, post-scarcity, technocratic state is a version of a wilder West, being torn asunder in yet new deputization to unqualified citizen posses and vigilante groups. The front page example is the battle over citizen-enforcement …