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 Crime is an issue in all of the neighborhoods where we organize. ACORN members almost invariably want more police, higher police visibility, street patrols, and police who are connected to the community and accessible. They don’t want police brutality, harassment, and civilian killings and casualties, but they want security. That’s just the …
Pearl River I’ll admit it. I find the Republican anarchy in the House fascinating, not because I’m a chaos monkey, but because their antics now are case stories in political maneuvering and backroom knife fights. Some of this wildness speaks to classic, almost universal organizing truths. In short, what follows is my highly speculative …
New Orleans This is juicy! Where’s Sherlock Holmes when we need him? We have a case dripping with irony. A politician who was a former press secretary for the president who was notoriously hostile to the press, calling an almost record low number of press conferences from the lectern of the White House …