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".
Pearl River Even though much of our union work and labor organizing focuses on lower waged and marginalized workers, both formal and informal, the organizing and bargaining challenges and issues of higher waged workers are an endless fascination. Often, we think of the unions of airline pilots or the almost closed-shop unions of the …
New Orleans Sports is a funny thing. Some might think it’s insubstantial, maybe even frivolous compared to all of the stuff that’s supposedly more important, like politics as one example or even art. For my money, they would be wrong. Sports of almost all kinds is more human and invariably more popular, in …
New Orleans I often find myself defending the city and state where I vote, when outsiders and transplants insinuate that there is appalling, deep seated corruption here. I usually point out that indictments are notoriously political, and Louisiana is a crazy political state and has been for generations. Actual convictions are less common …