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 We were meeting for hours with Ramona Williams of MCUP, Mississippi Citizens United for Prosperity in Jackson, Mississippi, and one of her leaders. We were all about the business and discussing how ACORN could work with MCUP, as a member of the Anthropocene Alliance, but it wasn’t just business on a …
New Orleans When a legal election observer says that a recent Supreme Court decision is “likely to be a train wreck for communities of color,” any believer in voting rights has to cringe. I should quickly add, cringe again, because this is just the latest outrage in a series of decisions by the …
Jackson My father was raised at the knee of the Lutheran Church in Orange and Santa Anna, California. My grandfather, when no longer able to work in the orange groves, was the janitor of the Lutheran Church, while they lived literally across the street from the church in Orange. My uncle, his older brother George, …