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 It took me several passes at the current New Yorker before I was able to bring myself to sit still and calmly read the long article on the siege of Minneapolis last winter by Trump’s ICE shock troops. One of the pull quotes in the piece noted that for ICE this …
Marble Falls I can’t keep from sharing a long “letter” of sorts from the deportation and ICE resistance in Minnesota that ran as an opinion piece in The New York Times by Will McGrath, described there as “an essayist” from Minneapolis. I’ll simply describe him as a resister who shares an insider’s report …
Pearl River Minneapolis has been well-known in the past for its fierce winters and sometimes amazing ice sculptures. There are whole festivals to show off their skills and art. Not every city can compete on that level, but that’s old history now, because Minneapolis has shown cities throughout the United States, if not the …