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 In typical fashion, James O’Keefe’s rightwing fake news operation, Project Veritas, couldn’t get it right. The old line is that “rats flee a sinking ship.” As Project Veritas went down, under the weight of O’Keefe’s many scandals, lawsuits, extravagant and entitled spending, and general narcissism, to right the ship, rather than recruit …
New Orleans When a company has seen its workers in more than 350 locations vote that they want to be represented by a union, you would normally think that they might have gotten a message that there’s trouble in a whole lot of river cities. Even when the company is huge and supposedly …
New Orleans These are tough times for nonprofits, and, frankly, for just a ton of other folks as well. The appeals are daunting. So many, in fact, that there’s something between a dread and imposter’s syndrome that begins to intrude. Especially with things like Giving Tuesday, which is so ubiquitous that I figure …