Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog

New Orleans Well, I am going to call this my first real “review” of Citizen Wealth, because Rob Ellman of the Intrepid Liberal Journal had actually READ the book, which made this a fun thing to do for a minute on a hot Sunday afternoon in New Orleans.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Ultimate Organizer: An Interview [...]

New Orleans     This book thing is a trip!  Every time I turn around I’m getting slapped up the face by the learning curve.

It’s not easy to write a book or get one published, so I’m not complaining, just explaining.  But, it also turns out that in this brave new, internet dominated world, it’s also a [...]

Seattle        My morning started with a long call with a young producer and 8-year veteran of Fox News Special Reports explaining to me why the special reports in depth documentaries were different from the regular whack Fox News.  What a job?  Her real pitch is that they had been “tasked,” as she said with [...]

Rome Labrino was designed as a plan for a new city (la nuova citta) by the famous architect, Kenzo Tange, and his associates based in Tokyo in the early 1970’s.  Groundbreaking on the first building was in 1976.  This was a grand plan designed for 70,000 people.  There were ten sections of Labrino [...]

New York I awoke this morning to a pleasant surprise as I hustled to fly to Sicily.  Sammy Ndirangu, one of our ACORN Kenya, organizers sent a half-dozen pictures of his first organizing committee meeting in the Highridge section of the Korogochu megaslum where we are launching the first two [...]

New Orleans The India FDI Watch Campaign has followed the recent election results closely to see what the impact the Congress victory would have on our 4-year old effort to force any opening of the country to big-box retail, like Wal-Mart to be accountable and regulated. The action of a large parliamentary standing committee on [...]