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".
Marble Falls My first reaction was disbelief. I asked Dharmendra Kumar, ACORN India’s director in Delhi, “Do you realize the time difference between Bangkok, Thailand and me?” He was moderating a panel at the Asian Pacific World Social Forum that would run between 415 PM and 545 PM Bangkok time which would be 315 …
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 …