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 current table thumping by President Trump, Vice-President Vance, and Attorney-General Bondi, seems largely to be a cry that “vengeance is mine” without rhyme, reason, or restraint. It’s hard to tell if this is grief and sorrow over the Kirk assassination being converted into words or a cover for previous plans …
Adirondacks Reading the papers here and there in our polarized country, I was recently struck by how unimaginatively schoolyard is the discourse. I think it was Louisiana’s own rightwing bat-crazy Congressman Higgins who called for the New Orleans Public Health department to be defunded by the federal and state government based on its …
Catania This was creepy. Last night meeting in the early evening with two comrades and supporters who have long worked to bring ACORN to Sicily, as it does inevitably, the question finally came at me, asking what were Americans doing “about Trump.” It was déjà vu all over again. We had just been talking …