Tag: Rathke
Recruiting techniques for extremists and supremacists
by Wade Rathke January 26, 2021 New Orleans In the wake of the January 6th days of rage at the US Capitol there’s a lot of buzz about the rise of rightwing extremists. The head…
The roots of “Stop the Steal” in the attack on ACORN
by Wade Rathke Sunday, January 24, 2021 New Orleans The arc of justice is long, but when people see it coming, they don’t stay silent. First, a text from the most devoted Times’ reader and…
Replacing lead service lines – perfect infrastructure project
by Wade Rathke January 22, 2021 New Orleans Recently, Social Policy was lucky enough to have fifty contributors offer ideas suggesting priorities for the new Biden administration. There were some amazing recommendations, and we’ll dig…
Boebert’s Colorado 3rd District isn’t that Safe
by Wade Rathke January 22, 2021 Pearl River ewly-minted Congresswoman Boebert sees herself as the right’s answer to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and the so-called Squad of progressive women in Congress. She unseated five-term Republican representative Scott Tipton…
In like a lion, out like a lamb
by Wade Rathke January 21, 2021 New Orleans It’s January, not March, but watching the Trump exit from Washington still summons the old “in like a lion, out like a lamb.” He said he would…
Let’s prepare a Texas welcome for the NRA
by Wade Rathke New Orleans I realize that talking about guns and their giant conservative enabler, the National Rifle Association, will have many of you thinking that we’re talking about the siege at the US Capitol…
Mr. Transactional, Mitch McConnell
by Wade Rathke January 15, 2021 Little Rock To follow politics in Washington these days, we don’t need a telescope, we need a Geiger counter. Some of the mischief is crystal clear, but way too…
The confused, fragmented and leaderless red-right
by Wade Rathke January 14, 2021 Little Rock Once you breakout of metro Atlanta and hit interstate 20, the hills start rolling towards Birmingham, and then interstate 22 moves through northern Alabama towards Tupelo until…
Capitol Police asleep at the switch
by Wade Rathke Friday, January 8, 2021 New Orleans One of the late-night comedians noted that these early resignations from White House staff and cabinet officers with less than two weeks before Biden’s inauguration are…
Trump riot rocks right and rest of us
by Wade Rathke Thursday, January 7, 2021 New Orleans Insurrection, riot, mob, anarchists, terrorists, as the Senate chaplain reminded, words have meaning, and those were words hurled like rocks from Senators and Representatives. For…
Celebrate, but keep it real, here come the Congressional Mod Squad
by Wade Rathke Wednesday, January 6, 2021 New Orleans Victories have a thousand fathers and defeats are orphan children, or something like that. ACORN, the Voter Purge Project, and Labor Neighbor are glad to count…
Doing our part in Georgia, ground game pays off
by Wade Rathke January 5, 2021 New Orleans The double-barreled Senate runoff in Georgia has been something to watch, and even more interesting on the ground, as our team found doing our part to assure…
Voter suppression unmasked and undaunted
by Wade Rathke Wednesday, December 30, 2020 Pearl River. What’s the saying, “if wishes were horses, beggars would ride….” The old Scottish nursing rhyme harkens to the days when the differences between the rich and poor might…
Hey, Congress, lay off ACORN already
by Wade Rathke December 29, 2020 Pearl River Good news! The still President, or as some call him the President-Unelect Donald Trump, went to sign his golf card in Florida and toady South Carolina Senator…
The continued call to organize the South
by Wade Rathke December 26, 2020 Pearl River Ben Speight is a seasoned labor organizer based in Atlanta. I’ve known him for a while, initially as an organizer with the Teamsters locals there. More recently…
Black Lives Matter, the Tides Foundation, and the future
by Wade Rathke December 28, 2020 Pearl River The Black Lives Matter movement erupted after the killing of George Floyd, as demonstrations, perhaps as many as 8500, occurred throughout the country and the world. BLM,…
The new media “left”
by Wade Rathke December 27, 2020 Pearl River Maybe I’m wrong, but over the Trump years, as the media has groped around trying to figure out a way to characterize him and his supporters, the…
Finding solace in the world above
by Wade Rathke December 23, 2020 Pearl River It’s hard to describe the pleasure we feel when we can take ourselves out of this world, but it’s real, and it’s special. It was wonderful that…
Christmas Comes to Congress
by Wade Rathke December 22, 2020 Pearl River Ahhh…it’s the end of the year when sugarplums are dancing in dreams of Congressional representatives in both houses and on all sides of the aisle. It may…
Homeless squatters vs. gentrifiers
by Wade Rathke December 21, 2020 Pearl River Congress passed a skinny stimulus bill for $900 billion to win the “better than nothing” award for 2020. Whoopee! The bill does promise a bit of cash…
Urban highway dividers
by Wade Rathke December 20, 2020 Pearl River Remember way back when, back in 2018-19 in the “before” times, when Amazon was jacking up cities, large and small, to compete for their headquarters location? New…
Labor law and leverage
by Wade Rathke December 19, 2020 New Orleans One of the cabinet positions still waiting for a nomination from President-Elect Biden is the Labor Department, where the devastation of workers’ rights and protections has been…
New York City protects fast food workers
by Wade Rathke December 18, 2020 Atlanta The New York City Council passed two ordinances that could open the door to a new era of job protection for some of the most precarious workers in the…
Renters’ choice, landlords’ scam
by Wade Rathke December 17, 2020 Atlanta Hitting the doors in various neighborhoods and apartment complexes in Atlanta, while talking to people about the runoff election, has been an education. Everyone knows about the upcoming…
