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 Every day there’s more drama in the Trump show. Recently, there was a tantrum provoked by late night host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel in his monologue. He raised questions about the purity of the recently assassinated and sainted conservative activist and organizer’s positions and the killer. Several big swinging local affiliates of …
New Orleans Frequently, we bat around the terms “chilling” and “prior restraint,” when observing actions by governments, corporations, the super rich and others attempting to bully their way forward, suppress speech, or intimidate resistance. We trumpet from the roof beams the need to resist, stand up, protect our values, save democracy, and whatever, …
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 …