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 I regularly get postcards and mailings every five years on the turn of the calendar inquiring, demanding, and soliciting my attendance at a college reunion. Having barely completed two years there, I get invitations based on my original class and my kind of secondary class. Either way, I would never go. I …
Pearl River It has been many minutes since I have run into Ellen Bravo, but I welcomed the chance to do so again, this time on Wade’s World. Ellen has been in the work for decades, coming to wide attention when she was the director of 9-to-5, the National Association of Working Women, for …
New Orleans I listened carefully to President Biden’s impassioned plea for Congress to finally act in some form or fashion to approve some gun control legislation protecting citizens in general from the horrors of our continued mass shootings. Then I read very closely the disconnect analysis in the New York Times by Nate Cohen …