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".
Pearl River The plot thickens as the accused finally speaks via court filings. What am I talking about? Well, I’m still bird dogging, as best I can, the accusations against the well-regarded and well-known civil rights organization the Southern Poverty Law Center. I’ve never been a fan and cheerleader for lawyers, but right is …
New Orleans Famously, in George Orwell’s 1984, we were indelibly introduced to the concept of governmental, autocratic doublespeak. Simply speaking, it was the art of fabricating language as a more palatable shell for people to swallow despite it containing terrible truths. No one contends that the book was not a powerful work of …
New Orleans ACORN and the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center for years piled through tax data from nonprofit hospitals in our joint Hospital Accountability Project. We issued a number of reports about the paucity of charity care these hospitals were providing, despite requirements in the Affordable Care Act that they do so …