New Orleans When driving up I-55 between New Orleans and Memphis last Friday to work with a ton of groups trying to save historic Foote Homes and finally force real discussion and input for communities about their future in Memphis, hitting Jackson always feels like the halfway point in a quick trip. Hardly past Jackson …
Category: Labor Organizing
Remembering the Great Art Martin
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 …
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.