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".
May 13, 2022 New Orleans It’s not just January 6th that shows how transferring accountability from institutions and governments to rank-and-file citizens can go awry. There seems to be a collapse in the thin wall between legitimate citizen action and calls to citizen vigilantism popping up more and more. I stand behind no …
May 12, 2022 Pearl River Certainly the signs have been everywhere around us: people don’t like to read anymore. People don’t have time for it, many argue, including the content overlords. Supposedly, we want short bursts of news like crawlers at the bottom of a TV screen or the small bites of USA Today …
May 10, 2022 New Orleans A lot has changed since 1977 when the Community Reinvestment Act was passed. ACORN and many other groups worked hard to secure the passage of the CRA in order to stop redlining by banks. There was a huge, discriminatory disconnect between deposits made in minority and low-and-moderate income …