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".
Marble Falls Pictures of hunger and starvation in Gaza are an everyday horror. Even President Trump put the lie to Israel’s Prime Minister saying he could tell by the pictures that people were dying of starvation. As bad as this is now, it also makes it hard not to think about what shape …
New Orleans Redlining continues to raise its ugly head in the legacy of broken urban neighborhoods in cities across the United States, despite having been mitigated in one way or another over the last fifty years. Classically, redlining was a de facto classification by the government, insurers, and political actors that mapped different …
New Orleans What a great early summer weekend in America! Father’s Day on Sunday, family all together, canoeing on the bayou, eating bacon with our hands, and making memories. Oh, and before that we had the battle of the band marches, one in Washington, DC, and the other seemingly everywhere across the country. …