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 1978 paint companies were barred in the United States from using lead in paint used in homes, yet for 35 years paint companies, including the giants like Sherwin-Williams, have successfully avoided having to take any real responsibility for poisoning so many. Worse, ACORN International has found repeated evidence that some of these …
New Orleans The fact that ACORN International has been fighting hammer and tong in Canada and other countries and with Local 100 United Labor Unions in the USA with Comcast, Time-Warner, and Cox to expand internet access to lower income families might have been what led me to notice an article about “bandwidth for the …
Little Rock Landed from Baltimore in time to go spend several hours at White Water Tavern celebrating the 29th Anniversary birthday party for KABF there with some great music including our own Back Roads star DJ, Amy Garland, who opened the affair as well as Bryan Frazier, our assistant manager’s own band ripping it up. …