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".
June 7, 2021 Pearl River Like a dog on a bone, I’m not going to get off of this argument I’ve now made a couple of times (Underemployed Strike is Winning, Are Unemployed Workers Striking?) that the current jobs situation in the US is not a worker shortage, as employers claim, but a worker rising. …
June 6, 2021 New Orleans Weatherization is old news in the United States. Such programs, though often woefully small, have been a staple of community action anti-poverty programs since the 1960s. Dilapidated and aging housing stock in lower income neighborhoods often meant atrociously high heating bills throughout the country. Shutoffs were common and emergency assistance …
June 5, 2021 Pearl River The first bill in the hopper for the current Congress, HR1, would expand voting rights on the federal level and preempt many of the state efforts to suppress voting access and participation, which seems to be a first order priority for many red state legislatures as well. There’s nothing in …