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".
Marble Falls If Marjorie Kelly has her way, the term “wealth supremacy” will be as common in political, cultural, and economic discussions as white supremacy. That’s just part of what she was telling me and tens of thousands of others on Wade’s World. Her argument in a nutshell is that the toxicity of …
Marble Falls Despite long gone Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s efforts to privatize all social housing or council housing, as public housing is called in the United Kingdom, is still a critical source of housing for tens of thousands. Many of ACORN’s 11,000 members in Great Britian still live in council housing and over …
New Orleans When Oliver Anthony (nee Christopher Anthony Lunsford) sings about the “rich men north of Richmond,” he’s talking about the people in Congress and all of those folks in Washington, D.C. and its suburbs. The news says that these same rich men did get it together in a roughhewn temporary coalition of …