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 My vote was canceled. Yes, I know that’s not supposed to happen, but in the wake of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority gutting the voting act and greenlighting gerrymandering to protect party majorities, it’s on. Maybe not everywhere, but in red states where Republicans might not have already sewed up all of …
New Orleans A recent study produced by Yale researchers had some grim news for people living in New Orleans that can be succinctly summarizes as “run for the hills.” With climate change and water rising, their predictions were dour and put the city with water, water, everywhere by 2100. More than twenty years …
New Orleans I had mixed feelings when I opened The New Yorker when I saw there was a long piece by Patrick Radden Keefe with the eyebrow “Letter from New Orleans.” On one hand, it was crack, there was no way that I wasn’t excited to read whatever it might have been about. …