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 Looking at the banner behind the stage, you could see a whole bedroom of strange bedfellows. Of course there was Hope Worldwide, the charitable arm of the International Church of Christ, a somewhat fractious and controversial religious group, which had brought the bulk of the 1500 young volunteers to Bush Park in …
New Orleans Drummond Pike is the founder and CEO of Tides, which includes the Tides Foundation, Tides Center, and a host of other “water” named and great organizations. He has been a boon comrade of mine for four decades, and it is not surprising to see that he posted up something on his blog …
Washington On the eve of the Wal-Mart annual meeting Michael Barbaro, the retail reporter for the Times, ran a piece that insinuated that Wal-Mart opponents were unilaterally disarming in their fight against Wal-Mart. I’ve gotten emails and calls from everywhere the upshot of which was: tell us there is no way this is true? …