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 Recently, while I was working with our dollar store project in Atlanta, I started hearing about a protestor killed in an encampment during a sweep by police forces that involved a long-running protest over the location approved for a police and training facility. It was all news to me, either generally below my …
New Orleans Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. We’ve all heard that line since childhood. I only repeat it to underline my argument about the claims of New Orleans recall campaigners to demand voters be moved to the inactive list to assuage their fears that their petition efforts have …
New Orleans If I had good sense, I’d keep my mouth shut, but that’s almost impossible, as I follow closely the perverse effort in our headquarters city of New Orleans by some people to force voters off the election rolls in order to advance an unrelated issue. A bunch of people have been promoting …