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 Big headline in my local newspaper in New Orleans focused on the fact that Louisiana had moved up the ladder in the United States ranking on the education report card. We had moved from 46th to 42nd, our highest ranking since 2003. Sometimes it’s the little things that matter. Why is …
New Orleans Sometimes when things just seem too good to be true, it is actually because it’s quite simply not true. At the bottom line, there’s still no substitute for good judgement. Ok, so that’s the moral of this story. You might wonder, what’s the story? Part of it is about bitcoin. I’ve read …
Pearl River In 1984, ACORN organized what we called “Reagan Ranches” all over the country, recalling the famous Hoovervilles, to protest Reagan economic policies impacting our membership. In a similar “ranch”, organized along the trickle of a river in Dallas during the Republican national convention, we slept and marched under a banner that proclaimed, …