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".
Natchez I’m falling down on a regular basis on my daily regimen. First, I miss a Friday by taking my first sick day in several decades thanks to a copperhead. Now, I let a hurricane slow my roll and upend my schedule. What next? We woke in the predawn on Saturday in Little Rock to …
Little Rock A half dozen people gathered in the Atlanta heat under a gazebo at Capital Gateway Apartments, an Integral managed project. The issues weren’t unusual. In fact, the issues were too common: mold, slow to no maintenance, security, and rents themselves. The ACORN Tenants Union in Atlanta had heard all of these …
Little Rock Here’s an interesting issue that will increasingly become part of the public and private conflict around the polarizing issues of the pandemic: who pays for Covid-19 tests? Underneath the issue of mandates around masks and vaccination, testing is still vital. Often it is the twin in the either-or when workers and others …