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".
Pearl River One of the major advances enabling modern unionization was the employer payroll deduction system for membership dues. Rather than having to hand collect dues from members at the workplace or union hall, an authorization from a worker means that the dues amount is deducted directly from the worker’s paycheck and remitted on …
New Orleans Randy Shaw, director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco, and a longtime colleague and observer of community and political organizing, shared with me his recent column in Beyond Chron. I’m forwarding it on, not just because it mentions ACORN, but more pointedly because Randy issues a call to action that …
Rotterdam My last night in Paris I had an assignment. There was a seminar being moderated by a longtime ally and friend of the organization in France, and, arguably, the expert on community organizing in the country and much of Europe, Julien Talpin. The Justice Ensemble’s Adrien Roux had to get back to Lyon …