Wade Rathke:

New Orleans       There was a special section in the New York Times recently where their reporters did a follow-up with workers from all around America that they had talked to during the pandemic to see how they were faring now.  That was a super depressing read! The bottom line was clear.  Unemployed workers were […]

New Orleans     Storms around Labor Day get my full attention.  Betsy hit hard in the fall of 1965 right after school began and took more than a week to get everything back in gear.  Katrina in 2005 hit at the end of August and decimated the city of New Orleans in what is now […]

New Orleans      The half-acre ACORN Farm has been in production in the Lower 9thWard of New Orleans for the last seven years or so.  Initially part of the city’s Grow Green initiative to utilize land lots decimated by Hurricane Katrina, we have gradually moved from renter to owner, finally completing the process at the […]

New Orleans      We have a sign up for Adrian Perkins in the grass strip between our fence and our street in New Orleans.  We have a sign up along a piece of ground right across the Pearl River in Mississippi for Mike Espy.   Both are running for seats in the US Senate.  We have […]

Pearl River     In the more than forty years that I have known Nat LaCour, I had never known his full name was Nathaniel Hawthorne LaCour until I regrettably had to read his obituary when he passed away recently at 82 years of age.  I bet there was a great story behind that name for an […]

Pearl River     A book entitled, The Sex Obsession:  Perversity and Possibility in American Politics, arrives in the mail with the word SEX in capital red letters along with obsession slightly smaller, and I didn’t know whether to take the cover off or cry uncle, having been lured by the word, “politics,” into reading the book […]

Little Rock      About twenty Georgia State University School of Social Work students watched the film, The Organizer, in Atlanta recently.  I zoomed in for a questions-and-answers session after it finished.  The first question was straightforward:  how would I compare the work of ACORN with the Black Lives Matter?  The answer isn’t simple or short, because […]

Little Rock      In recent months I have been on a weekly voting call focusing on stopping voter suppression and increasing turnout in the US election on November 3rd.  Some of the participants with voter registrations in battleground states complain from time to time about the daily deluge of texts coming their way.  Living in a […]

New Orleans     It’s small world.  Marva Burnett, the president of ACORN Canada and ACORN International, visited several cities in Nigeria last year with her church group.  She met a young man named Edem Etido in Port Harcourt, a large city much farther southwest from Lagos, the mega-city, but also along the Gulf of Guinea, […]

ChNew Orleans       Finally, a cure for Covid-19 pandemic depression!  I can’t believe that the president hasn’t been screaming the news at the top of his compromised lungs now.  If you want to feel good, just give!  It works for either a political candidate or a charity.  If you want a suggestion of a charity, […]