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 I got a call from a PR man for the University of California Press flaking a book about drugs. I’m a bystander on this issue, so my first kneejerk reaction was, “not interested.” He kept going through and said this guy’s work wasn’t really so much about drugs as it was about …
Pearl River We would all like to believe that when we talk about children, lower-income families, and the justice system that we are talking about horses that are all hitched to the same wagon and going in the best and right direction for all. Talking to Daniel Hatcher, a law professor at the University of …
Marble Falls Talking to Andrew Boyd on Wade’s World recently, he didn’t come right out and say that the problem with a lot of the climate change Cassandras is that their message is so Debbie Downer that too many people just tune out and turn away, but he came close to that by example. …