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".
New Orleans Watching the machinations of the US House of Representatives as the followers try to elect a leader as Speaker is better than a soap opera and almost includes the same themes, minus the sexual innuendos so common to that genre. The Republicans are not a gang that can’t shoot straight. They …
New Orleans Looking at gang and cartel driven crime from drug dealing to murder, one country after another, including the US, has tried militarizing and increasing police forces and expanding incarceration exponentially, yet crime and violence remain persistent and ubiquitous. Nowhere has the of violence been greater than in Mexico. The Sinaloa cartel …
Pearl River While posting a blog to Facebook on what we have called “maximum eligible participation” in a riff on the old War on Poverty line about “maximum feasible participation” of the poor, I found myself calling for a “mass enrollment campaign.” I of course in my excitement mistyped that exhortation as “pass enrollment …