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".
Pearl River Cape Cod in Massachusetts has a reputation as a tourist and second-home area. “Going to the Cape” is what people talk about in the summer months in Massachusetts, so a lot of the economy is seasonal. Seasonal for tourists means service work for the towns, even if the luster of the Kennedy …
Calgary I first heard about Clement Pettijean, a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, when I got a notice of a dialogue between him and Alex Han, the new editor of In These Times. I know Alex from his time years ago as an organizer for Local 880 SEIU, our old ULU sister organization. …
Philadelphia Like a bad penny, the same question popped up again in the crowd of forty activists and organizers in Philly, just as it had in Easthampton and Cambridge, Massachusetts. People understood that home visits and door knocking are fundamental to the ACORN, but everywhere people are asking if it’s really safe to …