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 Let’s be honest, the city of Buffalo is not a place that most Americans think about on a regular basis. Sure, if they go to see Niagara Falls, Buffalo is the southern gateway. And, yes, sometimes there are cheaper flights from the airport for Canadians or others venturing south. When the NFL …
Brooklyn I’m talking to Ernie Dumas, a former editorial writer for the Arkansas Gazette, at a coffeehouse in Little Rock’s Heights neighborhood. A woman overhears us, disappears, and comes back and gives each of us a book of interviews she had done with ten African-American women in the Delta towns of Gould and Marvell, Arkansas. …
New Orleans It’s a sad statement about the values and foundations of American society that when people don’t get what they want, they still feel it’s safe to punish the poor, and people who claim to care about lower income families allow them to do it, because they are not only poor, but …