Skip to content
  • Home
  • About & Bio
  • The Organizer Documentary
  • Organizations
  • Training
  • Video
  • Press
  • Writings >
    • Books
  • Radio
  • Contact

The Chief Organizer Blog

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".

Month: October 2006

On the Personal Side for My Dad

Ideas and Issues International Personal Writings October 6, 2006 by wade

New Orleans       I was on the tarmac finally on the last leg back to New Orleans from Atlanta.  I managed to get my son on the phone for a minute in the middle of mid-terms to wish him well, and called my folks.  My mother answered and was relieved to have me back in-country, and …

Continue Reading

Irbid and the Textile Workers

Ideas and Issues International Labor Organizing Personal Writings October 5, 2006 by wade

Amman        Rich Hall and Shira Qatarneh from the Jordan Solidarity Center allowed me to ride along with them as they went up to Irbid to visit with their local staff member working with the Jordan Textile Workers and assisting in organizing in the QIZ — which is the local handle for the special industrial zone …

Continue Reading

Dues and Sustainability?

Financial Justice Ideas and Issues International Labor Organizing Personal Writings October 4, 2006 by wade

Amman        I spent a couple of interesting hours meeting and briefing the Solidarity Center staff in Amman one morning.  It is interesting to imagine having responsibilities for countries that range from Palestine to Jordan to Iraq to Bahrain to Tunisa and others in this troubled area on one agenda or another. As always, I …

Continue Reading

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Follow Us

Facebooktwitterlinkedinyoutubeinstagramfoursquare

Email Subscription to Blog

Join 2,230 other subscribers

RSS follow along in a feed reader

  • Saving FEMA
  • Society versus Celebrity
  • Short List on Big Bad Budget Bill
  • Looking at Trump’s Climate Assault via Louisiana
  • Intended and Unintended Consequences

Blog Stats

  • 122,763 hits

Categories

Archives

Blogroll

  • ACORN International
  • ACORN International on Facebook
  • Books by Wade
  • Organizers Forum
  • Social Policy
  • Twitter
  • ULU Local 100

Interviews with Wade Rathke

04/16/2021

Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

03/18/2021

Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

Wade Interview in Czech Republic

Sherry Linkon's Interview with Wade Rathke on the show "Lincoln Avenue" on WYSU radio about "Organizing and Citizen Wealth"

Italian Interview with Wade

Halo Noviny: The occupation of the Wall Street fills us with hope (Czech-Language)

Religion Dispatches: Forty-year organizing veteran has plenty of new ideas

Corporate Knights: The Magazine for Clean Capitalism

Intrepid Liberal Journal

The Peter B Collins Show

For Original Writing by Wade Click Here

The Other Side of the News
Facebook Twitter Instagram Rss
© 2025 The Chief Organizer Blog – MinaLite theme by ZThemes