Wade Rathke giving a lecture on Community Labor Organizing for the Working Class Studies Series at Youngstown State University. Youngstown, Ohio on March 20th, 2012.
Category: ACORN
Battle for the Ninth: ACORN, Rebuilding New Orleans & the Lessons of Disaster
As we are gearing up on the 7th Anniversary of hurricane Katrina, here is a look back on ACORN’s role in saving the Ninth Ward and lessons learned on disaster recovery and campaigns. These video’s are from Wade Rathke’s discussion of his book, Battle for the Ninth, at Odyssey Bookstore in Springfield, Massachusetts on June …
Wells Fargo Racial Steering and Discrimination Settlement with Justice Department
New Orleans The recently announced settlement between the Department of Justice and Wells Fargo Bank saw them pony up $174 Million to provide restitution to 34,000 customers because of racial discrimination in lending rates and steering them into toxic subprime rates caught my eye and brought me to full attention. This might be a case of …