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".
August 4, 2021 New Orleans The NLRB hearing officer has issued a complaint in the Bessemer, Alabama, union election involving Amazon warehouse workers on the question of representation by the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), affiliated with the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW). In the NLRB process, a complaint is issued …
July 24, 2021 Pearl River Who really represents a community and can legitimately speak for the interests of a community has long been a critical and contentious question in community organizing. As organizers who seek to build mass organizations, there have been two major schools of work. One has been to create legitimacy by …
New Orleans In recent weeks the conservative, communalist Indian government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken steps yet again to attack nonprofits, especially those with any extensive ties to foreign donors. Technically, these were changes in the law for those organizations registered under the FCRA, the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, but they …