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 Knights of Labor, an early American laborunion,n used to bar bankers and lawyers from membership in their organization. These days, in the United States, it’s easy to see why lawyers were included in such a ban. Many of us could have quite a long and engaged argument about the evidence in …
New Orleans The United States Constitution is clear. The government can’t punish individuals without judicial determination, or in America’s whacky world, corporations, since the courts have ruled that they are “individuals” for legal purposes. I don’t want to dive down that hole with you this minute, though, but stay with me. Article I, …
Marble Falls Not having made it through higher education except in starts and stops over a couple of years, I can’t pretend to be an expert in all of the ends and outs of the academy, as understood in the United States. Along with most Americans, though, I do understand the institutional claims …