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 New Yorkers are lucky. Not only do they get to vote with relatively little hassle, but they get to send important messages to politicians about where they stand by voting on unique ballot lines that identify their politics not in broad strokes, but along sharp edges. Why? Because New York State remains …
New Orleans My bad! I called it way wrong. After the New York legislative session where under the influence of a Democratic majority and progressive forces, major breakthroughs occurred, especially around expanding rent control access to cities around the state and closing landlord loopholes that had existed for decades, I interpreted the progress as having …
New Orleans Joe Biden, good mainstream liberal and former Senator and Vice-President under Barack Obama, seems to be toast. He didn’t pass the torch, he got torched in the recent candidates’ debate. Bernie Sanders, the standard bearer of the left last time, seems almost left behind now. Where is this all going? A Pew Research …
New Orleans Recently Dan Cantor, the long-time head of the Working Families Party of New York and now director of their multi-state efforts to create a progressive alternative party, co-authored a piece that ran in the publication, In These Times, about lessons we could learn from the electoral victories of Syriza in Greece and the …
New Orleans The headlines were all topspin, which is the way most people follow politics. The influential and growing political force in New York State, the Working Families Party, had made a deal, significantly brokered by the new Mayor of New York, and longtime WFP and New Party activist, Bill de Blasio, and would now …