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".
Ocean Springs Congress in the first recission or clawback of a legislatively approved appropriation since 1999 under President Clinton canceled $9 billion in funding for foreign aid, which included more than one-billion for public broadcasting, targeting NPR and PBS. Defunding public broadcasting has been on the conservative wish list since the Nixon administration. Republican …
Marble Falls Despite the daily Chief Organizer’s Report and the Peoples’ Daily News, I carry around some random items that aren’t enough for a full report and don’t fit well anywhere, but at the same time seem worth sharing, even if not quite priceless. Today, here are some examples of such odds and …
Marble Falls For all the signs of increasing resistance and chronic failures of the new Trump administration, there’s a problem that is impossible to ignore: Trump’s threats and bullying in many cases is actually working. In one case after another, there are huge blinking stop signs on fundamental activities and organizations because of …