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".
July 20, 2021 New Orleans Organizers with A Community Voice, ACORN’s Louisiana affiliate were suddenly burning up the phone lines in crisis mode. Members were being called for donations and responding. In the beginning I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Snippets of conversation that I caught in passing were trying to find …
New Orleans Unbelievably, President Trump was unable to stay on message even in the wake of the national tragedy of mass murder in El Paso and Dayton. Only, Trump could make a day of mourning and the traditional post-disaster visit all about him and his sense of grievance and entitlement, rather than about the …
New Orleans This is a story that needs to be retold of a working class neighborhood in Hermitage, Tennessee, who stood up for one of their own, even if he and his son were undocumented immigrants. Margaret Renkl, a contributing writer for the New York Times, wrote the story of what happened when, ICE …