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 hardly remembered talking to Jesse Chanin years ago, back in the pre-Covid times, about the role of the teachers’ union, UTNO, the United Teachers of New Orleans, in the labor movement and the community. Hearing from her that all of her work had finally come to fruition in a book, Building …
Manchester Attorney General Jeff Landry in Louisiana is a hard right culture warrior and Republican provocateur. Yet, for the first time in a dozen years, he emerged as the winner with a majority of the vote in the so-called “jungle” primary, where candidates of all parties contend for a place in the general election. …
New Orleans This isn’t a race among the Republican majority in the US House of Representatives, it’s a some kind of a bad survival television reality show. The big difference is that the subtitle on this show would be: Survival of the Unfittest. We’re watching such a downhill slide that we seem to …