WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
May 2, 2021 Pearl River Normally, about this time of year we would be locking down the location for the annual Organizers Forum International Dialogue. When the board of Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center met recently for the second straight time we bowed to the inevitable and recorded unanimous votes to cancel the dialogue …
May 1, 2021 New Orleans Quarterly earnings reports from the big five tech conglomerates, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook Google, and Amazon were way over one-trillion-dollars and up 25% over the same quarter last year, regardless – or perhaps – because of the pandemic. One paper noted that in one month these five horsemen earn more than …
April 30, 2021 New Orleans We were lucky on our work to launch the ACORN Tenants Union in Atlanta to have a bunch of serious and committed young apprentice organizers with us who chose ACORN as their practicum in the quest of a Masters’ degree in Social Work at Georgia State University. Over four months …
April 29, 2021 Atlanta Jobless claims are reportedly finally going down after a full-year of the pandemic, and employers are crying that they have vacancies that they are unable to fill. The left notes that the wages and benefits on offer are too low, and that’s certainly true without a federal minimum wage increase in …
April 28, 2021 Atlanta There’s just no way to love the Service, as the IRS calls itself. Here’s an example. It’s 2021, hardly anyone even has a fax machine anymore, but the IRS, alone among almost all federal agencies and certainly business in America, will not accept emails and scanned documents. Any document transfer has …