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 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 …
July 30, 2021 Little Rock I’ve gone whole decades without having to take a sick day due to good health and even better luck. But, stuck in the mammoth Little Rock Baptist Hospital all day with no working internet and unable to walk, there’s no way around counting this as a sick day. …