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 Now that the candidates for the US presidential election are no longer presumed, but set firmly in concrete, the fight will be ratcheting up to win voter support. Interestingly, in such a divided country with such well-known and established candidates, the undecided voters are likely few, making the nonvoters critical to the …
New Orleans Someone could almost rewrite the song line, “War? What is it good for?” and substitute WTO for war and still get a lot of us clapping and singing along. Not because the World Trade Organization or WTO for short is not a blood and guts outfit with bombs bursting, but many …
New Orleans Time changes, but what does the body know? What was 4am is now 5am, and on and on. Over recent weeks, my internal clock is confused. Nepal and then India to New Orleans on a ten-and-a-half-hour difference, and then on a three-day turn around, head to Heerlen, Netherlands with a seven-hour …