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 Remember James O’Keefe, the video-scammer, rouge editor, spy poser, convicted miscreant, and damages payer? Probably not, although certainly given the damage he wrought to ACORN in the USA a dozen years ago, I can’t forget or forgive him. He and his misnamed Project Veritas were rightwing darlings in the time of …
Pearl River Everyone I know has learned how to use our local electric utility Entergy app in order to look at their map to try and figure out whether or not their block in their neighborhood and, just maybe, their house has power now eleven days after Hurricane Ida’s impact hit New Orleans. Red means …
Pearl River We got lucky. We took a chance and left Natchez, Mississippi, where we had sheltered, and bet that despite the Katrina anniversary horrors wrought by Ida, that we might be alright near the Pearl River on the Mississippi border. The odds were all in our favor. We had cameras at the camp …