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".
July 17, 2021 Lake Burton, Georgia There’s a contradiction at work in thinking about culture and cancelling. Culture is usually seen as something fairly immutable, something of the infrastructure of a people. It’s not impervious to change, but change doesn’t come easily to something so firmly rooted. Modernity and technology force adaptations and shocks …
July 16, 2021 Montgomery Driving to Atlanta on a monthly basis to support the ACORN Tenants Union, Interstate 65 turns southeast onto I-85 below Montgomery. Luring my son, Chaco, with me on this trip, I promised we would take a look at Montgomery and some of the new civil rights memorials there. We …
July 15, 2021 New Orleans Think about it. Nationally, healthcare facilities were a primary pandemic hot zone. Mortality in some states, take Louisiana for example, in these facilities were one-third of the total deaths. It’s not too hard to remember that hospitals were running out of beds and ventilators. We all held our …