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 We agreed to do a series of two-hour Zoom training sessions on community organizing for a coalition of grassroots frontline groups dealing with climate impacts from toxics to flooding to sea rise and storm preparation. The last session was on campaigns, and the groups and organizers who had been participating were …
New Orleans The early months of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ tenure as governor of Arkansas have been marked by both confusion and consternation. Sometimes she seems confused and believes she is still former President Trump’s press secretary and trying to sell alternative facts and fantasy as if reality. Other times she seems to think …
New Orleans The first thing we need to get clear is that the so-called “green bank” being touted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not a bank. It’s a big pot of money, about $27 billion, that is part of the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). In reality, it’s an investment …