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 The pandemic may be over, but one of the after effects that has become permanent is Zoom and the other video conferencing tools, whether Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or whatever. I wonder about them even as I use them regularly. We have a regular team meeting every Wednesday afternoon. Check-ins with …
Pearl River Everywhere you go, everything you read, combines to convince all of us that it’s a brave new world. Robots and artificial intelligence are coming and companies sing a chorus of how good it’s going to be for all of us. Listening to Local 100’s staff on our weekly roundup call made me …
San Angel Karl Marx has been famously quoted as referring to religion as the opiate of the masses. His point being that religion, offering a future, better life in the by and by, narcotized people to endure the difficulty of their lives and work, rather than rising to demand change in the here and …