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 In the US, we’ve had governmental shutdowns over recent years from time to time. Most of them have been relatively short. Services were disrupted. Federal workers were furloughed. When it was over, they received their back pay, and things went back to normal. During the interim, the government often maintained crucial …
Marble Falls Driving back and forth to Little Rock for meetings of the KABF board and the monthly meeting of our emerging climate coalition, Arkansas Grassroots United, I listened to an audiobook of Anne Appelbaum called Autocracy, Inc. As an American journalist and Polish citizen, who is admittedly center-right, as she refers to …
Marble Falls It’s so outrageous, that I find myself thinking, “not even Trump would pull off a scam like this.” I could be wrong, though. The New York Times reported, somewhat breathlessly, that Trump “…is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him…” …