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 The North American ACORN Year End / Year Begin meeting ended at noon on Sunday. Today is Martin Luther King’s Birthday, a holiday in the United States, and by the flip of the calendar, also Inauguration Day in Washington, DC, where Donald Trump will take the oath, likely with his little fingers …
Bay St. Louis Once again, the ACORN family of organizations in North America travelled to New Orleans for the annual Year End / Year Begin Meeting. Most of the 22 folks from the various organizations stayed at the camp near Pearl River with others booming in from New Orleans, Slidell, and an Airbnb in Waveland, …
Pearl River President-elect Trump wants to shake the tree as hard as he can until the leaves fall into piles that he likes. I get that. No president, good or bad, comes into office determined to do exactly what the ones before him did. In his usual tactical repertoire, he goes for the bleachers …