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 I wasn’t sure that I was going to be able to visit with Gina Peltier, a self-described water protector on Wade’s World. Small problem, she was in jail, although she hoped to be released sometime on the day before the interview. When I asked her why she had been held, she told me …
New Orleans Another last-minute move by President Biden and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has ordered a suspension of evictions for another sixty days in a Hail Mary pass after time had run out on the last moratorium. This one relies on equating housing with public health under the strain of the …
August 5, 2021 New Orleans, These are tough days to be living in Louisiana. We’re leading the country in new cases of the delta variant of Covid-19. Our hospitals are bursting at the seams. There are rumors, likely true, of people being turned away from emergency rooms. There are stories, absolutely true, of people …