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".
New Orleans Michael Zweig has had an interesting career on the left. He remembers the 60s and 70s, not as a cultural phenomenon, but as a set of political events that shaped his life and eventual career. He was at the birthing of the Student for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the throes …
Marble Falls If Marjorie Kelly has her way, the term “wealth supremacy” will be as common in political, cultural, and economic discussions as white supremacy. That’s just part of what she was telling me and tens of thousands of others on Wade’s World. Her argument in a nutshell is that the toxicity of …
Pearl River With wars in the news all around the world in Ukraine, Israel, Myanmar, Sudan, Armenia, and elsewhere, veterans were on my mind. Since war is so important to nation states, how do they really handle their veterans? This has always been a question for me. Some of my earliest organizing experiences were …