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 No question. We live in hard times of division and reaction now. Could it be worse? Absolutely! In fact, it often has been worse, as I was reminded in reading the efforts of the Wobblies to organize in the United States in the early decades of the twentieth century and then visiting …
New Orleans Everything about a woman’s right to choose about their body and well-being when it comes to procreation seems political in the United States now, especially after the Supreme Court eviscerated the long-established precedent of Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision. The added attack on the FDA’s more than twenty-year approval …
Pearl River It turns out that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sold three pieces of property to his rich, donor buddy Harlan Crow, perhaps for more than they were worth. They claim this was to be some kind of memorial to where Thomas had lived, but there’s been no progress on that, and, even if …