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 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 …
New Orleans When discussing migration and sanctions the order of the day is really the old expression, “What goes around, comes around.” There’s a bit of schoolyard bickering between the United States and some of our Latin American neighbors, doing some heavy finger pointing about who and what is responsible for the flooding …