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 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. …
New Orleans Tulane University, located in New Orleans uptown Garden District, is a source of pride for many. The university is consistently ranked relatively highly by most reporting services. It’s not top tier, Ivy League or Little Ivy, but it’s in the small cohort of excellent private universities in the South. Increasingly, it has …
New Orleans The humorist David Sedaris, writing in a recent number of The New Yorker, spoke whimsically about how his mornings have changed from Trump-Time where he devoured the news and refreshed websites to steel himself against the daily horror to now in Biden-World where he glances at the headlines and has returned …