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".
Pearl River FFLIC’s biggest current campaign is their effort to try to stop the expansion and rebuilding of the Swanson Center for Youth in the north Louisiana city of Monroe. FFLIC is easy to say, but stands for a string of words: Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children, a 20-year-old organization active around …
New Orleans I’m going so far out of my lane, I’m in Afghanistan. Not literally of course, since everyone with a US passport is in line for a helicopter out of Kabul or in line trying to get a visa to decamp. The top line is clear. The Taliban in a matter of …
Pearl River My friend and comrade, Jamaica Plains’ own Mike Gallagher, has a new book for poems coming out that he is previewing at several events at the end of August and again in the fall. If there were such a genre as “organizing poem,” Mike would be one of its leading lights. …