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".
Little Rock Sometimes the little things remind us that we’re fighting the same war, but on different battlefronts. I’ve read both of Isabel Wilkerson’s books, first, The Warmth of Other Suns, the award-winning book on the Great Migration, and, more recently, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent. Seeing that she was giving a …
New Orleans The play-pretend of the NCAA, as regulator of US college and university athletes, is steadily and surely coming to an end when it comes to paying them to play. The clock is ticking faster. It’s now just a matter of time. Under constant pressure, including from the courts and the NLRB, …
New Orleans Certainly January 6th was an assault on everything we believe about democracy in the United States, because it was a dramatic attempt to undue the will of the American people as expressed throughout the country in their election ballots. In that case, despite the continued furor, it didn’t work, and Joe …