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 It took me several passes at the current New Yorker before I was able to bring myself to sit still and calmly read the long article on the siege of Minneapolis last winter by Trump’s ICE shock troops. One of the pull quotes in the piece noted that for ICE this …
Pearl River As Trump continues to flail at mail ballots without evidence, claiming the way that one-third of the US votes is somehow not secure and contributes to questionable results, the beat goes on. His executive order has been barred by federal judges and is headed to the Supreme Court. North Carolina has already …
New Orleans This whole Trump colonization effort in Venezuela was already unsettling based on the administration’s chortling about the real mission being to expropriate oil for the US. Usually, the public at least gets some kind of thin rationalization for military action, like saving democracy or protecting human rights. Slapping dollar signs and …