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 Sometimes we overlook the obvious when focusing on some of the fights on the sidelines. This thought hit me like a brick while I was reading about the efforts to win a minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers in Minnesota, the latest battleground for wage justice for so-called gig workers. These …
Mumbai Laxmi, the longtime ACORN leader in Dharavi was pointing out various areas on the redevelopment map of the area, including where she lived and had finally been able to prove title to make the relocation threshold. I knew Laxmi. I had been sitting in the back of a large meeting she held in Dharavi …
Mumbai There’s nothing easy about Zoom governance. One thing in its favor is that it’s better than nothing, and so it’s the chosen alternative when ACORN leaders assemble internationally for our spring meeting. We’ve gotten better at it. Backgrounds are muted more often. There’s less waving at the screens for speakers to turn on their …