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’ll have to admit that even in the worst of situations, I’m always looking for the handles. The small openings where work and action can make a difference; the windows that are still open, even as others are locked shut. All of that has me looking more closely at Justice Kavanagh …
Marble Falls We’ve always been clear in the work that I’ve shared with so many others that’s the “rule of law” is little more than a thin sheet covering the rule of politics and the wielding of hard-fisted power by those who are winning. There are rationalizations galore and there are innumerable posers, …
May 17, 2022 San Francisco While all eyes are on the Supreme Court because of the abortion leak, there’s other damage being done. A 6-3 decision announced this week, in what we might have hoped was a quixotic case involving Ted Cruz, brought more horror to our future, this time to the electoral …