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 ACORN is now in the process of organizing gig workers and delivery drivers in Delhi. Maybe we should know better? There’s no easy way to do this, and the record of success anywhere in the world is marginal to nonexistent. Motor scooters are ubiquitous, with company names recognizable around the …
Pearl River I pretty much lower the hip quotient whenever I walk into a room. In the blazing new age of social media, I gave up on keeping up many years ago. Twitter or whatever it’s called now was X’ed out of my life for all practical purposes when I couldn’t keep up with …
New Orleans I was talking to an old comrade, friend, and Local 100 organizer from back-in-the-day, Jon Barton, who among other things heads up the climate initiatives for the SEIU, the giant US-based Service Employees International Union. He had mentioned in an interview for Wade’s World how seriously the union was taking the …