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 It may have been hardball politics by both Democrats and Republicans, but it was a fair play within the chalk lines to raise the penalty flag on President Biden’s rough outing in the debate with Trump. Now the tables have turned though, and it’s equally fair to wonder what’s going on …
New Orleans In Peru, the slogan was always “water is life,” when ACORN fought the privatization in Lima, Antigua, and other cities across the country in alliance with FENTAP, the water workers union. In New Orleans, ACORN and Local 100 joined with our allies, both locally and nationally, to beat back the privatization of …
Pearl River Jim Lynch, a one-time ACORN staffer back in the day and a long-time KABF board member, sent me the obituary in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette on Pat House’s passing at 94 years of age. Pat was a long-time comrade and friend of our organizations back to the very beginning in 1970 and …