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 KABF is in a special election partnership with the Associated Press this year, which meant that I didn’t just get the terrible news about attacks on Medicaid recipients in Arkansas in the usual ways, along with the racist dogpile that followed the ad, but got a special note from our AP …
Ocean Springs Congress in the first recission or clawback of a legislatively approved appropriation since 1999 under President Clinton canceled $9 billion in funding for foreign aid, which included more than one-billion for public broadcasting, targeting NPR and PBS. Defunding public broadcasting has been on the conservative wish list since the Nixon administration. Republican …
Pearl River A key component in ACORN’s family of organizations is the Affiliated Media Foundation Movement (AM/FM), which helps manage some radio stations, assists communities in applying for full-power and low-power noncommercial stations, and provides content to those same stations. In talking to applicants for 100-watt low-power stations about construction costs, some are …