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 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 …
New Orleans The term “starving artist” is a dependable piece of the vernacular; a linguistic matched set. Unfortunately, cultural cachet doesn’t pay the rent. For all of the emphasis on “arts and letters” and the millions of gallons of ink major media from the New York Times to the local TV and news …
New Orleans Through the Workers Organizing Support Center we are regularly in touch with workers at the nation’s dollar stores. All of which made us pleased to read the long story in The American Prospect featuring the work and activism emerging as these workers start to organize. As Bryce Covert points out, Employees …