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 Mi companera is a “lead head,” as she self-describes herself and the global network of activists, organizers, scientists, and more who are constantly raising the alarms about the dangers of lead everywhere. For a while, there has been a box of lead-testing kits on the stairsteps that I have to navigate …
New Orleans A bunch of scientists from a slew of top enviro-research institutes in the UK, US, Netherlands, Germany, and Brazil, who study climate for a living had a simple, but solid idea. Maybe we should measure how what countries are actually doing to reduce global warming lines up with what they are …
Pearl River The last thing any of us need is another lesson in the absolute irresponsibility of any public officials or authority ever allowing vital community resources to be privatized as commodities and plums to be picked by private equity pirates. This time, like so many times before, it’s the foolhardy privatization of water. …