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".
August 2, 2021 New Orleans, The organizers and promoters of the Olympic Games give them a terrible name. Many times, the IOC, or International Olympics Committee, seems unable to get out of the way and let the athletes have their voice and compete in the fields where they excel. This year, one women’s team …
August 1, 2021 New Orleans Look, I might be old as dirt, but I’m in good shape and with good genes and even better luck have been wildly healthy all my life. Yeah, I have a bum knee from high school football and right this minute a swollen foot from a copperhead bite, …
July 31, 2021 Little Rock Around 2 am, I’m in Little Rock’s Baptist Hospital lying in my own version of snakebite hell hoping that fentanyl makes a difference. In the alleyway next door, nurses are having a conversation just feet away from me, that was unseen but impossible not to hear. In its …