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 The other day, sitting on a dock on an inlet in Stinson Beach that joins the Pacific Ocean, I was asked an interesting question by a friend and comrade who follows politics on hyper speed and at mine shaft depth. He asked me which state was worse now, Arkansas or Louisiana? By …
New Orleans “Oh, when will they ever learn?” The tag line from the old Pete Seeger rendition of “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” locked in my brain, as I read about the campus arrests at Columbia and Yale Universities of pro-Palestinian protestors. I have to wonder who advises these fancy, elite college presidents, …
New Orleans It’s painful to have a backrow seat in the Floridification of Louisiana. After an eight-year interlude with John Bel Edwards, a Democrat in the powerful governor’s posit in Louisiana as an offset to the largely Republican legislature, the election of the far right former Attorney General Jeff Landry as governor, coupled …