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 Thank goodness for the governor and state legislators in Tennessee! They saw a problem, realized it was happening on public property across their great state, and quickly became the first state in the country to face it head on and try to fix. Who says our state lawmakers in conservative bastions like …
New Orleans Recently, while I was working with our dollar store project in Atlanta, I started hearing about a protestor killed in an encampment during a sweep by police forces that involved a long-running protest over the location approved for a police and training facility. It was all news to me, either generally below my …
New Orleans If I had good sense, I’d keep my mouth shut, but that’s almost impossible, as I follow closely the perverse effort in our headquarters city of New Orleans by some people to force voters off the election rolls in order to advance an unrelated issue. A bunch of people have been promoting …