WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
June 12, 2021 Pearl River In 2002, ACORN, Local 100, the local labor council and a host of others banded together to successfully beat back the privatization of the New Orleans Sewerage & Water system. One thing led to another, and when we started working in Peru, ACORN’s first international project, one of our main …
June 11, 2021 New Orleans More than a year ago, our union had filed OSHA complaints in behalf of workers we represent in community care homes for mentally challenged consumers in Louisiana for lack of personal protection equipment (PPE) and failure to isolate and segregate positive Covid-19 cases. We even did actions demanding responses at …
June 10, 2021 New Orleans I read a fascinating article recently in The New Yorker that highlighted the emerging network of progressive groups like Justice Democrats and Sunrise that are pushing some pieces of the Democratic Party to the left. As is usual in the magazine, they focused on the personalities, their interconnections, and the …
June 9, 2021 New Orleans In third grade, as a new arrival to New Orleans, we were bused to the decrepit, now condemned, and long gone, giant wooden Lakeview Elementary School. Mrs. Quirk, my teacher, was a character that I’ll never forget, not so much for what she taught me, although I remember being fascinated …
June 8, 2021 New Orleans ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative journalism operation, has somehow, mysteriously, come into possession of fifteen years of tax returns for many of the richest people in America. In a bombshell announcement, they dropped their first report on the twenty-five richest people in America, obviously including the easily recognizable names of Elon …