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 situation in Gaza has been horrifying. Provoked by Hamas attack and killing of Israelis at a concert two years ago, Israel has launched a devastating attack on Palestinians throughout Gaza and even encouraged actively and passively settler violence in the West Bank. More than 65,000 Palestinians have been killed and millions …
Washington In the 1960s, citizen participation seemed to be coming to low-and-moderate income communities with President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. Maximum feasible participation was a baseline requirement for local community action programs. In CAPs, one-third of the seats had to come from the lower income constituency, ostensibly being served by the programs. …
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 …