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".
May 30, 2021 Pearl River The 100th anniversary commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and race riot has brought needed attention to the impact of violent racism on Black wealth that erupted in the post-Reconstruction period after the Civil War and continued throughout the 20th century and beyond. It was disappointing, even though highly understandable, …
May 29, 2021 Pearl River More than twenty years ago, a friend and comrade, still plying the trade with SEIU, who had worked with me in the 1980s, bemoaned the fact that none of the union organizers coming into the field then had any knowledge or experience in working under the legal rights and wrongs …
May 28, 2021 Little Rock There might be an interesting narrative where the poster child for climate change is a teenager in Sweden, but increasingly it looks like the real poster might as easily and accurately portray some guy sitting behind a huge walnut desk in some executive suite on Wall Street. Not really of …