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 In the US, we’ve had governmental shutdowns over recent years from time to time. Most of them have been relatively short. Services were disrupted. Federal workers were furloughed. When it was over, they received their back pay, and things went back to normal. During the interim, the government often maintained crucial …
Marble Falls Chuck Collins has a fixation about wealth. He’s written a bunch of books about the devastating impact of the gap between the rich and the rest to us. He makes following the money trail his full-time job at the Institute of Policy Studies where he tracks everything from the big business …
Marble Falls Driving back and forth to Little Rock for meetings of the KABF board and the monthly meeting of our emerging climate coalition, Arkansas Grassroots United, I listened to an audiobook of Anne Appelbaum called Autocracy, Inc. As an American journalist and Polish citizen, who is admittedly center-right, as she refers to …