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 I don’t use TikTok, but I know it’s hot. I’ve watched one video that one of our nephew’s children put together. It was cute. Supposedly, it was a riff on something else, but I didn’t get the cultural connection, so I was clueless. Here’s what I know from boomerville. For all …
New Orleans Once upon a time, some people used to wonder “how the other half lived.” In 2024, that’s a quaint notion. The common and business culture now has made it all about the fractional. We are forced to read about exploits, politics, purchases, personal affairs, and more of the super small fraction …
New Orleans Social media is ubiquitous. So much so that we often don’t know what part of it is for good or evil. This is an ever-present question for organizers. Talking to a researcher recently, she wondered what to make of some who argue that social media and digital organizing should be the …