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 Without thinking about it – and that’s part of the problem – we know the daily news of the world is full of endless wars, between and within countries, but we become inured. That’s just the way things are now. In America, we spent blood and treasure endlessly in Iraq and Afghanistan, …
Marble Falls At this point, many can’t remember there was ever a Vietnam War. Vietnam is a place maybe that manufactured their t-shirts. It’s a country competing to take away manufacturing plants from China, their historic frenemy, along with others feeding off of the new Cold War and supply chain issues. It’s even a …
New Orleans – We were in the mountains surrounded by snow and ice. It was very, very cold. We couldn’t get what we wanted to watch; let’s call in technical difficulty. Ok, how about a movie on Netflix for a father-and-son Saturday evening? All Quiet on the Western Front was on offer. Nominated for a …