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".
May 9, 2022 New Orleans Here goes my semi-annual contribution to the blog Working-Class Perspectives. Finally, it’s a new morning for workers in America. For at least a brief time, while the Biden administration is alive, even if unwell, and the Supreme Court has not yet brought the darkness and ended our parade, opportunity …
May 8, 2022 Pearl River With the leak of Justice Alito’s preposterous draft brief overturning Roe v. Wade, the commentariat in the news, social media, city streets, and kitchen tables is in full force. One of the most interesting pieces I have read offered an explanation for this fifty-year rearguard fight to overturn the …
May 3, 2022 New Orleans I’ve been to all fifty states, many of them repeatedly, but Maine is the one state I have to honestly admit, I have spent the least time visiting. Maybe an hour to tell the truth. We just drove across the border, had a cup of coffee, and were …
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 It’s one thing to try and balance secular claims with religious freedoms, but it’s another to directly discriminate against an entire people for their religion and religious practices. These are not the normal issues that a grassroots organization of lower income families would choose to tackle. Organizing 101 would normally nudge …