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 21, 2021 New Orleans Now that the US and some other countries are increasingly opening up, shots in arm, masks dangling from their ears, we are hearing one pity-party story after another from some of the bright lights about how they spent time in quarantine or lockdown. It’s not pretty. There are endless tales …
May 20, 2021 New Orleans There was a sub-head in an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal that was arresting. The author, identified, or more likely disguised, as only a “Florida-based writer” although seemingly a regular columnist for the rightwing tabloid, the New York Post — which is also owned, like the Journal, by …
May 19, 2021 New Orleans ACORN in India is once again shuffling our organizing plans around in order to meet the COVID crisis among our members, informal workers, and their communities. Once again, we are organizing dry food packets with weekly meals for thousands. Vaccines are in short supply and to get in line requires …