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 For years, many have talked about the importance in communities of so-called “third spaces.” These are the wonderful in-between areas between the public and private spheres, occupying what was hoped to be a neutral space of comfort and security for all. Third spaces were places where money and status, race and gender, …
Marble Falls If Marjorie Kelly has her way, the term “wealth supremacy” will be as common in political, cultural, and economic discussions as white supremacy. That’s just part of what she was telling me and tens of thousands of others on Wade’s World. Her argument in a nutshell is that the toxicity of …
New Orleans When Oliver Anthony (nee Christopher Anthony Lunsford) sings about the “rich men north of Richmond,” he’s talking about the people in Congress and all of those folks in Washington, D.C. and its suburbs. The news says that these same rich men did get it together in a roughhewn temporary coalition of …