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 It took me several passes at the current New Yorker before I was able to bring myself to sit still and calmly read the long article on the siege of Minneapolis last winter by Trump’s ICE shock troops. One of the pull quotes in the piece noted that for ICE this …
New Orleans Count on the New York Times knowing its audience when it comes to trying to poke fun at unions. The headline almost said it all, “These Goats Aren’t Heroes to a Sidelined Union Crew.” The piece got a little better if you read it to the end, but most of their …
New Orleans In the United States there are many laws about not using military forces in domestic matters. The contentious efforts by the Trump administration to mobilize the National Guard, bypassing the legal authority of state governors, to target alleged increases in crime in largely blue, Democrat-controlled cities and states, like Chicago and …