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".
Pearl River It’s hard to imagine Mexico as a workers’ paradise. Wages and working conditions are substandard. So-called charro unions which are too often in the pockets of the employers and the government have kept the lid on workers’ wages. Wages, even in some major industrial plants, like General Motors, start at as little as …
January 31, 2022 New Orleans There was an op-ed by a churchgoer in the Times that made a simple case: it was time to go back to church. Of course, that’s what all the churchgoers say, but her argument was different. She wanted everyone of her co-religionists to physically go back to church and to …
Pearl River Every year, rain or shine, sleet or snow, our ACORN family of organizations for the last almost fifty years has assembled at the beginning of a new year. For almost the last forty years we have met in the New Orleans area for what we call a Year End / Year Beginning …