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 The funny thing about power is that it is never absolute. Even when you have a lot of it and want more, having power is predicated on the base. What goes around, eventually does come around, if the rich and powerful forget about or neglect the base. They have to have significant …
New Orleans There’s nothing like federal immigration officials doing mass arrest roundups in workplaces, especially in urban America, to get everyone out in the streets. What Trump and his mad dog aide, Stephen Miller, don’t understand is how embedded immigrants, undocumented and not, are in American communities, workplaces, and families. These are not …
Toronto Let’s be clear. It’s great news that the Trump government has been forced by constant protests, agitation, legal action, and court decisions to finally return unlawfully deported and arrested immigrants to freedom. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from Maryland has finally been returned from an El Salvador hellhole where he had been detained for …