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 I got a call from a PR man for the University of California Press flaking a book about drugs. I’m a bystander on this issue, so my first kneejerk reaction was, “not interested.” He kept going through and said this guy’s work wasn’t really so much about drugs as it was about …
Lake Stoney, Ontario Maybe it’s not even news, but once again, yet another judge and jury has found rightwing scammer James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas guilty. It’s a drumbeat that won’t stop. They paid damages to ACORN employees in California who they hurt. O’Keefe and his confederates were found guilty for their office tampering in …
New Orleans We’ve talked about some of this before, but it’s such a great story, it’s worth retelling for any who haven’t heard it. I was reminded of the great effort by US debt activists reading a piece recently in Mother Jones that hit all the right notes quickly from start to Occupy …