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".
May 28, 2021 Little Rock There might be an interesting narrative where the poster child for climate change is a teenager in Sweden, but increasingly it looks like the real poster might as easily and accurately portray some guy sitting behind a huge walnut desk in some executive suite on Wall Street. Not really of …
Pearl River In a week when double-barreled hurricanes, Marcos and Laura, threatened the Louisiana coast, the fifteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and its devastation of New Orleans and parts of the Mississippi Gulf Coast are easy to forget. Remembrances are small and solemn, as people still crouch down in the pandemic. Some articles ran on …
Pearl River There was a day, long ago, when Betsey Ross sewing the flag was a symbol of America. Now, if we just knew what Debbie Downer really looked like, she might be the new picture of America. If you think I’m just talking about the current multi-pronged horrors of the pandemic, the depression, and …
New Orleans I’m trying to keep an open mind, OK? I know we’re all supposed to hate nuclear energy and be scared of total disasters, right? There’s Three-Mile Island in Pennsylvania. I’ve read the books and seen the series on HBO about Chernobyl. I’ve personally visited Japan to see Fukushima and the area evacuated. …
New Orleans Foundations created by corporations and the superrich are multi-headed monster of tax havens and public relations that combine to whitewash a story for the people down below that makes us swallow rather than spit. The latest examples have Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and world’s richest man, claiming to make climate change his …