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".
New Orleans Starbucks workers in more than sixty stores have filed for representation elections with the NLRB. The company, no doubt looking for a way to pushback, recently fired seven workers in one of its locations in Memphis, Tennessee. They are sending a message, but how are workers and customers supposed to respond …
New Orleans We’re learning some interesting things about podcasts these days thanks to Joe Rogan, the popular conservative talker, and Neil Young, the iconic rocker from back in the day. Many of these lessons we already knew, but some are new. Even in the age of social media communication, it is hard …
New Orleans It’s one thing to try and balance secular claims with religious freedoms, but it’s another to directly discriminate against an entire people for their religion and religious practices. These are not the normal issues that a grassroots organization of lower income families would choose to tackle. Organizing 101 would normally nudge …
New Orleans It’s really getting crazy out there, but crazy, serious and scary, not crazy, funny and weird. Let’s start with the cast of characters who want to be the Spy Boys of the right wing: Richard Seddon, Erik Prince, and our old friend, James O’Keefe. What a crew! Always follow the money first, …
New Orleans Ok, it’s on now! I should have known it was coming. Without a word, my companera has been asking Alexa to play Neil Young. She didn’t need to tell me that she’s doing it as part of her solidarity protest with Young’s action in taking his music off Spotify because …