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 Yeah, yeah, Trump is on trial. We all know that. He’s logging another historical marker as the first president to ever face a criminal trial. It’s a hometown crowd for him, but a place where he won’t find as many friendly faces in the jury from a pool of his neighbors …
New Orleans The headline was an attention grabber blaring out that Walmart store managers might make $240,000 a year. With a worldwide reputation for scrawny paychecks, was this possible? Having run an organizing program for a coalition of unions at Walmart stores almost twenty years ago in central Florida, I couldn’t resist reading …
Pearl River Paddling a canoe on a bayou regularly, year in, year out, one season after another, some might think is boring, but they would be wrong. There will be more ducks some years than others, and they will breed and nest in different places along the bayous. Some years there will be alligators …