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".
New Orleans We have an old saying in our work: “live by the press, die by the press.” What we always meant was straightforward. If you were just counting on the media, not your base, to win a campaign, you might get away with it once or twice, but eventually, it would turn …
Pearl River The movement moment of workers standing up to employers to demand their rights, and, in many cases, seek to organize a union to protect and advance those rights in the future, continues to pick up steam. The evidence continues to mount. More than 200 petitions have now been filed by Starbucks workers, …
New Orleans Living in New Orleans, we depend on the Mississippi River, and in my case, living only a couple of blocks from the great river in a neighborhood appropriately called Bywater, the river is a neighbor. At between 175 and 200 feet deep at the crescent near me, ocean going ships can …