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".
Barcelona In the first meeting of this year’s Organizers’ Forum delegation, we met David Karavala, one of the leaders and spokespeople for an organization called World Against Racism and Fascism in the back room of a bar near the city center. Over two hours, we not only learned about his organization, but in doing …
New Orleans I won’t speculate, as experts do in the Times, about whether or not Trump is losing it, because I can’t verify that he ever “had it,” given his nth degree of narcissism. I can say that if he was borderline before, he’s crossed over into another territory now with his recent …
New Orleans Recently, in response to a bit of push and shove from the Trump administration and its compliant appointees, the IRS announced that churches will now be able to make political endorsements to its members. There wasn’t much attention given to this announcement. Most commentators simply shrugged, since mostly the restriction against …