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".
Marble Falls Recently, I’ve gotten an uncomfortable feeling. Maybe I’m caught in my own bubble? Maybe I’m guilty of whatever this “doom scrolling” phenomenon is that I’ve read about? Maybe it’s something worse? Maybe I’m seeing through my own rosy colored glasses and coming out of the fog of denial? Whatever it is, …
Little Rock Acting as station manager of KABF in Little Rock, Arkansas, means that I now roll up there ten times a year over the last eight or ten years. Getting around the state, especially up in the mountains, I see the names of a lot of little banks that aren’t the big ones that …
New Orleans What can we learn from the Canadian blockade in Ottawa and along the USA and Canadian border? There are bound to be lessons worth examining even if the whole affair is a troubling bit of déjà vu and profound confusion. Déjà vu, because there is way too much of this that just …