• Expanded on original “ACORN Model” to organize low and moderate income families and informal workers in Canada (Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Hamilton, & Montreal), Dominican Republic (Santiago), Mexico (Tijuana & Mexico City), Peru (Lima), Argentina (Buenos Aires), Honduras (Tegucigalpa & San Pedro Sula), Kenya (Nairobi), and India (Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru & Chennai), Italy (Rome), United Kingdom (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol, London, Sheffield & Newcastle), Czech Republic (Prague), Ireland, Tunisia (Tunis), France (Grenoble. Lyon, and Paris), Cameroon (Douala), Nigeria (Port Harcourt), Uganda (Arua), the United States, and Netherlands (Heerlen) with new affiliates in Malta, Palestinian West Bank. Belgium (Brussels), and Germany (Frankfort) where we concentrate mainly in the megaslums (Dharavi, Korogocho, San Juan Laragancho, La Matanza, NEZA, and others) except in Canada, the United States, and European Union.  Organizations are membership based as either community organizations or informal workers associations among waste pickers, rickshaw pullers, and domestic workers in India.  ACORN’s Hawkers Joint Act Committee in India has pulled together organizations in 20 cities with a membership of 350,000.
• Membership is over 250,000 in these areas with campaigns based on infrastructure issues (potable water, habitable housing, paving streets, creating schools), the cost of remittances from migrant workers to their families, living wages, environmental justice and “green” practices, tenants’ rights, and lowering the digital divide.
• Partnerships with additional community organizations in Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines, as well as the water workers union (FENTAP) in Peru, the India FDI Watch Campaign (see below), and COMUCAP (a women’s coffee & aloe vera growing coop) in Marcala, Honduras.
• Expansion currently in the US both directly (Cleveland tenants) and through affiliates (see Anthropocene Alliance below) and Progressive Maryland and others.
• Attempting to build a new organizing and sustainability model in order to bring membership-based organizations to scale among the poor around the world.

• Founded an independent union with the successful election of Hyatt hotel workers and cafeteria workers at Tulane University in New Orleans, which affiliated in 1984 with the Service Employees International Union for 25 years until 2009, and then became independent again.
• Built largest local union in the South in “right-to-work” territory which exceeded 7000 members in a wide jurisdiction.  Currently less than 4000 members after giving 1000 from San Antonio to Texas local and 2500 to Louisiana public sector local over last 5-6 years.
• Represent low wage workers in private sector (nursing homes, group homes, sanitation workers, head start workers, janitors) and in public sector largely school service workers in Texas and state workers in Arkansas.
• Offices and staff in Little Rock, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Dallas, Houston, and New Orleans.

• Publish and edit quarterly journal (begun over 53 years ago) acquired with deep financial and editorial problems which has now been built to more than 1200 subscribers and 2500 on-line subscribers on placed on a firm financial footing.
• Business model is driven by libraries around the world where we have also build an audience of academics, policy makers, activists, organizers, and others.
• Created Social Policy Press which has published Lessons from the Field in 2008 for organizers working in rural organizations, Global Grassroots:  International Perspectives on Organizing in 2010 about work being done to build community and labor organizations around the world, and The Battle for the Ninth Ward:  ACORN, Rebuilding New Orleans, and the Lessons of Disaster in 2010, Virginia Organizing in 2016, and Nuts and Bolts:  The ACORN Fundamentals of Organizing in 2018.
• Write quarterly “Publisher’s Note” and “Back Pages” Column for the journal.

• Established Forum as an ad hoc gathering of senior community and labor organizers using “dialogues” on various topics that allowed cross organizational discussion and learning on issues like campaigns, technology, immigration, regime change, politics, tactics, and communications where over 650 organizers have participated.
• In the annual “international dialogues” have led delegations of organizers from the United States and Canada to meet with counterparts in Brazil, India, South Africa, Indonesia, Turkey, Russia, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, Bolivia, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Egypt, Bolivia, Morocco, Poland, Cameroon, Paraguay, Tunisia, and Taiwan involving almost 300 organizers.  Romania scheduled for 2025.

• With partners in India organized and financed the effort to hold Wal-Mart, Tesco, Metro, Carrefour, and other big-box operators accountable on their announced expansion into India by preventing them from being able to modify India prohibitions over foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail.  Under the auspices of the India FDI Watch Campaign worked to pull together a locally based staff and a coalition of Indian unions, NGOs, hawkers, traders, and others which has successfully prevented modification over the last number of years.
• Continue to staff and support his effort as part of ACORN India and ACORN International because of its resonance to Indians regardless of the overall Wal-Mart accountability efforts.

• Created 501c3 center for research, training, and other projects to support major scale organizing in new organizing models for community organizations and unions.
• Through CLOC (Community Labor Organizing Center) and ACLOC (ACORN Community Labor Organizing Center) supported and contracted to direct and staff organizing drives among home health care and home day care workers with SEIU in various states including Illinois, Iowa, Washington, & Oregon, Communications Workers (CWA) in New Jersey, and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in New York City that produced new members in these unions among these jurisdictions adding 150,000 new members to these unions.  Also provided pre-hire “home” and training operation for hundreds of potential union organizers to be field tested prior to being offered contracts with SEIU particularly.  In the largest year these contracts grossed $4 Million with SEIU alone.
• Administered contracts with UFCW, Teamsters, and others for research, campaigns, training, or staff direction at either the national union or local union level in Detroit, Phoenix, and Miami among other locations.  Provided the back shop targeting research for the joint “service workers” organizing drives among contract food service and other workers for the combination HERE and SEIU drives.  Did the research and corporate leverage work on the General Malls campaign for the SEIU building service division.
• LNRTC under a reorganization in 2009 now houses the Organizers’ Forum, Social Policy, and the H.L. Mitchell Scholarship Fund, among other projects.

• Consulting and communication nonprofit, especially known for daily blog which averages 2500 individual visitors per month and now runs daily and continuously since 2003.
• Principal consultant to CASA de Maryland, the largest immigrant-based service and worker center organization in North America on an organizational transformation project to move the organization from a service-based to a membership-based organization which now claims 150,000 members.  Contract work performed June-October 2009 and March 2010 thus far.
• Consultant to National Immigration Forum (Washington DC) and Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Reform (ICIRR)(Chicago) to develop field plan for national campaign to attempt to win comprehensive immigration reform.  Contract work performed October 2008 through March 2009.
• Trainer for United Poor Consortium (UPC) in Makassar, Indonesia for 50 organizers involved in GOTV mobilization of the poor to vote in municipal elections to leverage support for housing for slum dwellers for one week in September, 2008.
• Manage ACORN contract with the Anthropocene Alliance, a US-based alliance of 350 frontline groups dealing with climate change to provide six community organizing training sessions and then work with 15 groups in 10 areas around the country in California, Ohio, Maryland, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and New Jersey in 2024-2025 funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
• Manage ACORN contract with the Anthropocene Alliance for middle south states (OK, AR, LA, MS) to build State Organizing Centers in deal with climate change in 2025, funded by the Walmart Foundation.

• In a series of reports, first in just the 12 states of the US South and later across the entire country the Rural Power Project has documented the lack of democracy and diversity in membership-based rural electric cooperations in the country.
• The project has initiated a number of reforms both nationally within the coop association as well as supporting work of local candidates for coop office committed to reforms.
• The project has also created the only data base of all elections, rules, and officers within the 800 coops across the country, as an invaluable tool for grassroots reform efforts.

• After successfully restoring 40,000 purged voters to the rolls in 2019, these three nonprofit organizations combined to create the Voter Purge Project (www.voterpurgeproject.org) to collect pure voter files on a regular monthly and quarterly basis in order to monitor whether or not purges were legal or based in suppression.
• In the 2020 cycle, VPP was working with about 20 states.  We did field, phone, and other tests in NC, OH, MI, FL, and GA and found inaccurate purges between 20 and almost 50% depending on the state.  We did a texting program to voters in 10 states alerting people that they had been purged and linking them to re-registration.  For example, the Louisiana Secretary of State’s office called to complain about why they were getting a wave or re-registrations.
• VPP did additional canvass work in Georgia after election to move voters on the GA Seante runoff in greater Atlanta, exceeding turnout and totals by up to 20% in our precincts.
• In the 2022 and 2024 cycles, we are now handling 150 million voters in our database from more than 45 states and DC.  Currently, we are running an email program to more than 2 million purged voters in battleground states to re-register.  We are doing field tests in GA and PA once again to determine levels of suppression.

• Launched a campaign in the United States early in 2017 to combat predatory housing schemes in lower income communities involving contract-for-deeds, rent-to-own, lease purchase options, and other forms of precarious rental/ownership programs taking advantage of credit deserts in the community since 2007-8 Great Recession and soaring rents and eviction rates.
• Organized ACORN Home Savers Committees in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Youngstown, Akron, Detroit, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Memphis, Cleveland, and Little Rock to campaign for fairer contracts and conversions to conventional mortgages or deed possession.
• Forced Vision Property Management (VPM), based in Columbia, South Carolina into negotiations that culminated in an agreement in fall 2017 to change practices and initiate partnership projects for LPO to ownership conversion in Michigan and Arkansas, where the company had some density.  Also organizing partnership pilots in Detroit and Cleveland areas (NE Ohio cities) to move land bank houses to potential lower income families on short term contracts with VPM investors financing rehab.
• Additional targets for 2018:  Detroit Property Exchange, Rainbow Realty (Indianapolis), Harbour Portfolio (national, based in Dallas), and Apollo (Memphis, but a huge Wall Street equity fund).

• Half-acre urban agricultural project located on Law Street off of Delery as part of NORA allotment, purchased lots, and managed by A Community Voice / ACORN.
• Produces organic vegetables and fruit available to Fair Grinds Coffeehouse and the community with mostly volunteers from colleges, churches, and the community and managed by A Community Voice, a community organization in New Orleans (formerly Louisiana ACORN).
• Also, contains the ACORN Memorial Orchard recognizing longtime organizers and leaders of ACORN who have passed on.

• AGE, Inc was established as a L3C, Limited Liability Low-Profit Corporation, under a special Louisiana category created for social enterprises.  AGE may have been the first L3C in the state.
• Acquired Fair Grinds Coffeehouse 3133 Ponce de Leon, 10/15/12, as the oldest and only 100% fair trade coffeehouse in the city, sourcing all beans from the Port of New Orleans and providing community space for nonprofits and other groups on the 2nd floor.  Closed 2022 as a result of the pandemic.
• Opened Fair Grinds Coffeehouse at St. Claude, 4/1/15 to serve Marigny and the Bywater neighborhoods.  Closed 3/20 during pandemic.
• 5% of the gross revenues of Fair Grinds Coffeehouses goes to ACORN International in order to provide stipends and support to organizers in India, Africa and Latin America.  Fair Grinds closed when it was no longer financially able to honor this commitment due to pandemic reductions.

• Wrote the founding memo in 1978 to establish a 100,000-watt, noncommercial radio station broadcasting throughout central Arkansas from Little Rock, which went on the air in 1984 and has been so virtually continuously since that time with 40,000 current weekly listeners.
• Was recruited back by the Arkansas Broadcasting Foundation, as the license holder, to reorganize and manage the station as station manager on a three-year renewalable contract through AM/FM, Inc.) in March, 2013.

• Applied for frequency to FCC in 2014, awarded by FCC in 2015, and on-the-air in June 2017.
• Studio and antenna broadcasting from 2221 St. Claude Avenue.

• AM/FM helped found and manage stations in Tampa, Florida, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Dallas, Texas in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.
• AM/FM currently has a contract to manage KABF in Little Rock, WDSV in Greenville, and WAMF in New Orleans.
• AM/FM is planning to develop an internet radio station for ACORN International (www.acornradio.org) to rebroadcast programming from stations under management in 2018.
• AM/FM co-manages KOCH-FM, broadcasting in the Korogocho megaslum in Nairobi, Kenya.
• AM/FM helped organized and continues to support internet station in Uganda run by the
• Audience Foundation (www.radioacorn.org).
• AM/FM worked with LNRTC (see above) and Southern United Neighborhoods (SUN) to file for and receive construction permits for seven stations in Arkansas (1), New Mexico (3), and Colorado (3) awarded in 2022.  We hope to put the stations in Eudora, Arkansas and Kersey, Colorado on the air in 2024.
• AM/FM assisted 47 communities in the US in applying for low power FM construction permits in 2023.  Construction permits have been issued in Helena, Arkansas, and Fayetteville, North Carolina in 2024, while the rest are still pending approval by the FCC.
• AM/FM is in the process of pulling noncommercial radio stations that it manages and supports into the “Voice of the People” Network.

• Created WARN as a partnership between the AFL-CIO, UFCW, ACORN, and SEIU to bring accountability to Wal-Mart as the world’s largest corporation and reverse its impact on unions and working families.
• In a pilot in central Florida stopped construction of all Wal-Mart supercenter stores in a 22-county area 34 consecutive times during the life of the project.
• Created Wal-Mart Workers Association which in an 18-month initial pilot established that more than 1000 Wal-Mart workers would join an association, pay dues and win on the job despite being uncertified and not having collective bargaining.  UFCW made decision not to expand.
• Won special living wage for retail workers in Sarasota, Florida in 2007-8 for first time in North America through a ballot proposition we initiated, directed, and won electorally.
• Engaged in a campaign to prevent construction of huge distribution center in coalition with Teamster and UFCW locals in northern California for 3 years to keep expansion of Wal-Mart stores in Bay Area.
• Organized three successful national Site Fighter Conferences in St. Petersburg, Sacramento, and San Jose for unions and community organizations about how to develop corporate accountability campaigns around the impacts of big box store expansions in communities.
• Splits between AFL-CIO and Change to Win federations stranded the project finally both politically and financially.

• Designed, recruited, and trained a “class” of organizers in Vancouver and Toronto as a prototype for developing “community-labor” organizers for the labor and socially responsibly funded Columbia Institute.
• Supporting six organizers in a year-long program was deemed too expensive and program not continued.

• Founded and directed as Chief Organizer one of the lead multi-union “partnership” organizing campaigns following John Sweeney’s election as AFL-CIO president involving SEIU, HERE, and the Operating Engineers.  The effort was a million dollar plus organizing drive with a staff of more than 25 targeted at an industry of 50,000+ hospitality workers in New Orleans where this is the dominant industry.
• Successfully organized 400 Convention Center workers through direct election and the Loew’s Hotel, the only unionized hotel in New Orleans, through a “labor peace” leverage campaign.
• Other projects where we had commitments to build and operate union evaporated after 9/11 dried up financing and the convention business tanked for several years.

• Founded grassroots, community organization of low- and moderate-income people in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1970 which grew to 500,000 members with 100 offices and a budget of close to $100,000,000 by the time I resigned 38 years later.  Recognized as largest community organization in the country.
• Organization registered millions of new voters (more than one-million in 2008-cycle), won billions in housing money, held financial institutions accountable, won close to 100 living wage campaigns to bring raises to low-income workers, and countless community improvements at the local level.
• Won statewide initiatives on drug pricing, utility rates, and minimum wage increases in AR,SD, OH, AZ, MI, FL, MO, and elsewhere.
• Trained thousands of community organizers and community leaders and established schools and programs to do so within ACORN and its family of organizations.

• Recruited to organize chapters in Springfield where I organized six local groups and close to 1000 members and in a series of campaigns won special needs “benefit” campaigns around furniture and household supplies, school clothing, and winter clothing.  Failed to win winter coats for adults.
• Promoted to take over as head organizer of MWRO after six months based in Boston where I ran a staff of over 25 organizers, administered a membership of 4000 statewide, and worked directly for statewide board.  Major campaign was opposing “flat grant” being proposed and implemented by the Governor which would have eliminated “special needs.”
• Worked directly for NWRO founder and executive director, Dr. George A. Wiley, who was based in Washington, D.C.

• Tides, Inc, now consisting of the Tides Foundation, Tides Center, Tides Advocacy Fund, and other related entities has become a more than $200M asset progressive philanthropy and incubator of social change projects.
• I served at different times as Chair of the Board of the Tides Foundation and Chair of the Board of Tides Center, as well as continuously on both boards for over 30 years, including Chair of the Committee of the Whole, which brought all of the subsidiary organizations back into Tides, Inc. in 2008.
• Served as a member of the annual Jane Bagley Lehman Award committee with Drummond Pike, Tides CEO, and members of her family.
• Served as board member of the Paradox Fund of the Tides Foundation and as principal advisor of the Frontera Fund of the Tides Foundation.

• Served during the period of greatest growth of SEIU as it crossed the million-member mark and became the largest labor union in North America.
• Served as a member of the Public Division Executive Committee, which was the union’s largest division with almost half the total membership.
• Left the board to direct the WARN project at the request of International President Andy Stern.

• Founder of the Conference, First Secretary-Treasurer, and President
• Composed of all SEIU locals in the South to encourage organizing and international support of programs to organize and service in this difficult, non-union region.
• Served until International Union directed all conferences disband.

• Secretary-Treasurer, 3 terms, 1/98 to 12/04
• Executive Board Member, 5 terms, 1/88 to 12/97

• Effort to build a progressive political part in the United States using “fusion” with other parties as an organizing tactic to gain a foothold.  Lost Supreme Court case in 1997 by 5-3 in effort to establish.  Other programs based on model of NDP in Canada with whom we consulted.
• Led to development of alternative, ballot line parties where “fusion” was legal on the state level including the Working Families Party of New York, the Working Families Party of Connecticut, and other efforts in South Carolina and the Northwest.

• Consultant with ACORN contract developing field program for political party doing voter contact and GOTV managing crews of 50 activists in Quito districts from October 2012 to April 2013.

• Consultant with ACORN contract developing field program and health insurance campaign in Amersfoort, Netherlands headquarters and with education department staff August 2016 to February 2017.

• Exchange Ambassador providing consulting and community organizing training:  US and Bulgaria and Slovakia, February 2018.
• Exchange Ambassador providing consulting and community organizing training:  US and Bulgaria and Albania, February 2019.

• Author, Nuts and Bolts:  The ACORN Fundamentals of Organizing, Social Policy Press, New Orleans, forthcoming, January, 2018, publication date.
• Author, “Ties that Bind Local and International Organizing” chapter in Partnerships and Coalitions, edited by Samuel Mitchell, Ottawa, Author House, Bloomington, September, 2013.
• Author, Battle for the Ninth Ward:  ACORN, The Rebuilding of New Orleans, and the Lessons of Disaster, Social Policy Press, New Orleans, August 2011.
• Editor, Global Grassroots:  International Perspectives on Organizing, Social Policy Press, New Orleans, May, 2011.
• Author, “The Challenges of Sustainability and the Dominant NGO Culture,” in Global Grassroots:  International Perspectives on Organizing, May, 2011.
• Author, “Organizing the ACORN Way,” Chapter in Comunita’e progetto nella Valle del Simeto La mappa partecipata come practica per lo sviluppo locale (Community and Planning in the Simeto Valley.  The Participatory Map as Practice for Community Development), Edited by Laura Saija. Adrano:  Didasko Edizioni, 2011.
• Author, “Understanding ACORN:  Sweat and Social Change” chapter in The People Shall Rule:  ACORN, Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Economic Justice, edited by Robert Fisher, Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, October, 2009.
• Author, Citizen Wealth:  Winning the Campaign for Working Families, Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco, July, 2009.
• Author, “Labor’s Failure in the South:  The Key to the Puzzle” chapter in American Problems, Southern Solution:  From Where We Stand Peril and Promise, edited by Anthony Dunbar, New South Press, Montgomery, 2008.
• Author, “The Country Roads that Created ACORN” chapter in Lessons from the Field, edited by Kristen and Joseph Szakos, Social Policy Press, New Orleans, 2007.
• Author, “Powerful Communities from Little ACORN’s Grow,” essay in One Can Make a Difference, by Ingrid E. Newkirk, F&W Publicans, Avon, MA, 2007.
• Author with Beulah Laboistrie, “The Role of Local Organizing:  House to House with Boots on the Ground” chapter in There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster:  Race, Class and Hurricane Katrina, edited by Chester Hartman and Gregory Squires, Routledge, New York, 2006.
• Author, “A Wal-Mart Workers’ Association:  An Organizing Plan,” chapter in Wal-Mart:  The New Face of 21st Century Capitalism, edited by Nelson Litchenstein, New Press, New York, 2005.
• Author, “Falling in Love Again,” essay in What’s Wrong with a Free Lunch, edited by Joel Rogers and Joshua Cohen, Beacon Press, Boston, 2001.
• Author with Joel Rogers, “’Everything that Moves’:  Union Leverage and Critical Mass in Metropolitan Space,” chapter in Central Labor Councils and the Revival of American Unionism:  Organizing for Justice in Our Communities, edited by Immanuel Ness and Stuart Eimer, M.E. Sharpe, New York, 2001.
• Author, “ACORN Update: More of a Movement, More of a People’s Machine,” in Community Organizing Handbook 2, The Institute for Social Justice, Little Rock, AR, 1977.
• Author, “Letting More Flowers Bloom Under the Setting Sun,” chapter in Which Direction for Organized Labor? Essays on Organizing, Outreach, and Internal Transformation, edited by Bruce Nissen, Wayne State University Press, Detroit,1999.

• Author, “Treme for Tourists:  The Music of the City Without the Power,” Television and New Media, Sage Publications, April 2012.
• Author, “The Maharashtra Model:  Organizing Informal Workers by Combining Power, Protection, and Politics,” Social Policy, Volume 41 #1, Spring, 2011.
• Author, “Community Organizing at Center Stage,” Social Policy, Volume 38#4, Winter 2008-2009.
• Amy Dean and Wade Rathke, “Beyond the Mutual Backscratch:  A New Model for Labor-Community Coalitions,” New Labor Forum, Fall, 2008.
• Author, “Taking the Work Seriously:  An Organizer’s Perspective on Transforming the City,” Social Policy, Winter, 2007.
• Author, “This I Believe:  Listening,” National Public Radio, February, 2007.
• Author, “Leveraging Labor’s Revival:  A Proposal to Organize Wal-Mart,” New Labor Forum, Summer 2006.
• Author, “Six-Month Checkup on New Orleans,” Social Policy, Spring 2006.
• Author, “What’s Next for the Gulf,” Southern Exposure, February 2006.
• Author, “Engaging Wal-Mart at the Grassroots,” Social Policy, Summer, 2005.
• Author, “Engaging the Base, Delivering the Goods,” Social Policy, Spring, 2005.
• Author, “Reflections on the Election,” Social Policy, Winter, 2004.
• Author, “Falling in Love Again,” Boston Review, Summer 2001.
• Author and Joel Rogers, “A Strategy for Labor,” Dissent, Fall, 1996.
• Author, “Call of the Streets, “Boston Review, Summer, 1996.
• Author, “Majority Unionism,” Social Policy, Volume 35, #3, Spring 2005.
• Author, “Thumbnail Tactics, “Clamor, Spring 2004.
• Author, “The Need for Tactical Assistance:  A Call for Help,” Clamor, Spring 2002.
• Author, “Tactical Tension:  Part 2, New Allies and New Opportunities,” Social Policy, Fall, 2001.
• Author, “Tactical Tension:  Part 1, The Problem – Limits and Constraints on Tactics,” Social Policy, Summer 2001.
• Author, “No More Mourning in America,” The Nation, September 21, 1998.
• Author, “Linking Local Strength Across the Nation,” Social Policy, Fall 1980.
• Author, “ACORN:  Taking Advantage of the Fiscal Crisis,” Social Policy, Fall 1979.
• Author, “Drawing the Line, Part Two,” Just Economics, 6 (1): 2-3, 11, January 1978.
• Author, “Drawing the Line, Part One,” Just Economics, 5 (8): 4-5, 9, November, 1977.

On Line Publications

• Portside: Amazon? There has to be a better way August 22nd 2021
• The Stansbury Forum: Amazon? There has to be a better way  August 11th 2021
• Working-Class Perspectives: May Day 2020: Workers in the Pandemic Time  April 27th, 2020
• Working-Class Perspectives: National Labor Relations Board Twists the Knife in the Heart of Unions and Workers  November 18th, 2019
• Working-Class Perspectives: The Challenges of Organizing “Gig” Workers  April 28th, 2019
• Working-Class Perspectives: Time to Make a Deal on the Federal Minimum Wage  January 14th, 2019
• Working-Class Perspectives:  Labor’s Day, More or Less?  September 2nd, 2018
• Working-Class Perspectives:  twice a year from 2019 through 2022
• Radical Housing Journal: Liquid tenancy: ‘Post-crisis’ economies of displacement, community organizing, and new forms of resistance.
• Columbus Free Press:   May 2018 to July, 2020.
• Columbus Free Press:  Tips and Tools #22: Building an Organization: Feeding the Beast – Using Social Media in Organizing
• Columbus Free Press: Tips and Tools #21: Building an Organization: Will a Pandemic Eliminate Doorknocking?–Part V
• Columbus Free Press:  Tips and Tools #20: Building an Organization – Counting the Doors and Organizing Math – Part IV
• Columbus Free Press: Tips and Tools #19 Building an Organization: Counting the Doors and Organizing Math – Part III
• Columbus Free Press: Tips and Tools #18: Building an Organization: Counting the Doors and Organizing Math – Part II
• Columbus Free Press:  Tips and Tools #17 Building an Organization: Counting the Doors and Organizing Math Part 1
• Columbus Free Press: Tips and Tools #15 Building an Organization: Running the First Organizing Committee Meeting.
• Columbus Free Press: Tips and Tools #14: Building an Organization: Where Does the Organizing Committee Meet?
• Columbus Free Press: Tips and Tools #13: Building an Organization? How to Identify and Recruit Organizing Committee Members
• Columbus Free Press: Tips and Tools #9: Building an Organization? Try Repurposing People – Part II
• Columbus Free Press: Tips and Tools #7: Building an Organization? It’s Hard to Run an All-Volunteer Army!
• Columbus Free Press: Tips and Tools #6: Building an Organization? Why Not Dues?
• Columbus Free Press: Tips and Tools #5: Building an Organization? Rain Follows the Plow
• Columbus Free Press: Tips & Tools #4: Building an Organization? Sustainability Matters
• Columbus Free Press: Tips & Tools #3: Building an Organization? The Beginnings Prejudice the Ends
• Columbus Free Press: Tips & Tools #2: Building an Organization? Tax Exempt or Plain Nonprofit
• Columbus Free Press: Organizing Tips & Tools Column Tips & Tools #1: Building an Organization? To Incorporate or Not to Incorporate
• Also, additional pieces in Organize, Southern Exposure, among others.  Interviewed widely in many languages and countries.

• Author, “Majority Unionism:  Strategies for Organizing the 21st Century Labor Movement,” Strategy Paper for SEIU International Executive Board, Seattle, June 2002.
• Author with Gary Delgado, “Communities Ground Up or Ground Down,” for Center for Economic Development, Baltimore, MD, August, 1995.
• Author, “Media and Organizing,” Strategy Paper for Expansion into Radio and TV, New Orleans, 1991.
• Author, “ACORN Organizing Model,” Training Paper, 1973.

• Peoples’ Daily News, c. 3-minute daily broadcast on KABF and podcast on www.chieforganizer.org, April 2013 on-going.
• Chief Organizer Reports, c. 4-minute daily broadcast on KABF and podcast on www.chieforganizer.org, 1992-95, and April 2013 on-going.
• Wade’s World, an interview show with “the most interesting people in the world,” every Friday morning between 9 and 9:30 Central Standard Time, livestreamed on www.kabf.org, and available as a podcast at www.acornradio.org/wadesworld on a weekly basis.
• Keynote speaker Grassroots Radio Conference 2019 (Portland, Oregon) and panelist at GRC 2024 (New Orleans).

• The Organizer, directed by Nick Taylor (Toronto) and produced by Joey Carey (Brooklyn) is currently in “festival” release having its world premiere at the New Orleans Film Festival (October 2017) and showing at festivals in Woodstock (NY) and Cedar City (UT) and scheduled in 2018 in Santa Fe (NM), Oxford (MS), Lafayette (LA), and Missoula (MT) currently.  Film notes describes “The Organizer” as a “portrait of Wade Rathke, the controversial founder of ACORN, as well as an exploration of the much maligned and misunderstood occupation of community organizing.  With a wealth of archives and interviews ‘The Organizer’ is a film about people who have dedicated their lives to the often hidden, usually messy, and always controversial job of building power for the powerless.”
• ACORN and the Firestorm, directed by Reuben Atlas with a festival release in 2017, recounts the attack on ACORN by right-wing videographer, James O’Keefe, and his co-conspirator, Hannah Giles in 2009 that triggered the reorganization of ACORN in the United States in the polarized politics of contemporary America.  Wade Rathke is one of the people interviewed and discussed in the documentary.
• 88.3 FM & The Voice of the People, directed by J. T. Tarpley, 2017 with release in 2022.  Since 1984, community-operated radio station KABF has broadcast diverse and subversive programming through a max-watt signal in the middle of deep-red Arkansas. In 2017, as local and national politics are in a rightward lurch, the station and its long-time volunteers engage with Trump’s inevitable inauguration, the first Women’s March, and more.  Wade Rathke is interviewed.

• Activist in Residence – October, 1989 University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Esquire Magazine, Men and Women Making a Difference under 40, 1985, New York
• Organization of the Year in the South: Southern Regional Council 1974, Atlanta
• President’s Award, SEIU International Convention, 1992, Las Vegas
• SEIU Public Sector Division, Katrina New Orleans Rebuilding Award, 2005, Chicago
• Organizer of the Year, ACORN 2004, New Orleans
• Star Founder Award, Enlace, 2008, Mexico City