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".
Pearl River This has been one of those monster cold fronts that everyone around the world knows about. A brother in Quito, asked me about how New Orleans was making it. As just one example, our Little Rock office has been essentially closed all week, and there have hardly been a half-dozen live shows …
New Orleans It probably brings a grimace to the faces of many environmental and other lawyers when they keep having to repeat Chevron’s name favorably in court proceedings and papers these days. Chevron, of course, is the giant oil and energy company and the bête noire of environmentalists and many others everywhere because …
New Orleans Social media is ubiquitous. So much so that we often don’t know what part of it is for good or evil. This is an ever-present question for organizers. Talking to a researcher recently, she wondered what to make of some who argue that social media and digital organizing should be the …