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".
Black Student Union members and supporters outside the UW Administration Building July 28, 2021 New Orleans I skim the Arts section of the New York Times. As I was taking it to recycling yesterday, something caught my eye. It was a picture of young Black men raising their fists in front of a …
July 27, 2021 New Orleans As the clock ticks to the final days of the national eviction moratorium and the beginning of what many predict will be the eviction tsunami, this housing crisis joins the long line of other crises we have experienced, including almost everything with the pandemic, as case studies in …
July 25, 2021 Pearl River In the polarizing struggle over Covid-19 and lifesaving vaccinations, the repeated call has been to “listen to the science.” The same cry is heard about climate change and global warming. People obviously decide when and where to listen. Maybe rather than debating about this person’s view or the other, …