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 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 …
Atlanta Our daily paper in New Orleans gets thinner and thinner. In the latest reduction, the formerly four sections have now been combined into two sections. Metro is just another flip of the page from the front, and the Living section finds its way around Sports. It may be skinny and offer little but …