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 Hancock County is not the poorest county in Mississippi by a long shot. My mother was born and raised in Sunflower County in the Mississippi Delta. The poverty rate there is over 38%, more than twice the 17.3% rate along the Pearl River where I’m sitting now. The 11.3% US poverty rate …
New Orleans I was talking to an old comrade, friend, and Local 100 organizer from back-in-the-day, Jon Barton, who among other things heads up the climate initiatives for the SEIU, the giant US-based Service Employees International Union. He had mentioned in an interview for Wade’s World how seriously the union was taking the …
New Orleans In the United States, history is made every day, just as it is everywhere the world turns. Recently, we’re seeing history made in bold letters. A one-hundred-year global pandemic would make the list. So would a siege of the US Capitol abetted by a disgruntled, sulking president in his last days …