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 Working Class Perspectives gave me the honor of the Labor Day blog again this year, so it’s a pleasure to share it with you, while hoping you remember the value of labor on this day of recognition. Essential Workers Take Action During the pandemic, the working class that had been …
Marble Falls We’ve looked at the diversity and governance of rural electric cooperatives closely over the last five or six years. By we, I mean ACORN International, Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center, and Local 100 United Labor Unions that came together as the Rural Power Project. It hasn’t been a pretty picture. …
Houston Years ago, my one-liner response to questions about how I had chosen a career as an organizer of unions and community groups was simple: I was looking for a job where I didn’t have to do heavy lifting. I had to drop that joke, when ACORN offices in the late 70s and 80s …