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 We don’t read much about it, because the news these days is so DC and Trump-centric, but if we really want to understand what a weaponized US Justice Department might look like in going after opponents without any pretense of following the rule of law or the Constitution, all we have to …
New Orleans We’re on the countdown to the inauguration and the coming years of Trump II, so a huge cloud of uncertainty is hanging over millions of immigrants in the United States, because of Trump’s deportation threats and indications of a return to Phoenix Sheriff Arpaio-style interrogations and harassment over any suspected of …
Santa Marta, Columbia Almost as predicable as the sun rising in the east was the likelihood of a spit fight on the far right about immigrant visas. Actually, it’s only partially about visas, but mainly about immigrants themselves. Some hate them all. Others hate all of them except the ones that make them money. …