New Orleans In 1974 when ACORN could hardly break into the Arkansas Gazette there was a front page story about how the organization and its members had engineered a “takeover” of the Pulaski County Quorum Court, which at that time was the governing body of the County holding Little Rock and North Little Rock. The …
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Community Labor Organizing
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.
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 …