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".
New Orleans Louisiana is a funny place. New Orleans makes us stand out, and we have our neighboring states of Mississippi, Arkansas, and sometimes even Texas, to make us look better than perhaps we really are. Recently, we have become the benchmark for delta variant horror in the pandemic as possibly the worst in …
New Orleans, It was inevitable. We could see this coming as clear as the day’s dawn. It was just a matter of time. Representing nursing home workers, we knew, given the last year’s history with the pandemic and the death count in care facilities, that a vaccine mandate was necessary and would be unavoidable. Now …
New Orleans Of all of the revolts we might imagine in the fever dreams of our lives, the anti-mask rebellion has to be one for the comic books. Much of the protest has been passive, implemented by random weird walkers in the pointless pursuit of some perverse pretense of principal. Most media coverage seems …