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 Honestly, the news of a second consecutive defeat by the Amazon Labor Union, in a two-to-one beatdown in Albany, New York, is depressing. Their victory earlier this year had been inspiring when they came back from a false start and soundly won in a much, much larger unit in Staten Island. …
Pearl River As Chief Organizer of ACORN all of these years, I’ve been fortunate to know hundreds of great community and organizational leaders at the country, state, and local level. The ones I would know best were the leaders elected to represent their division of the organization. I would see them at board meetings, …
Marble Falls Supposedly, there’s more bad news, at least for those of us dedicated to making change. It seems Harvard researchers, according to the news headlines, have studied the question deeply and have now found that “protests are failing at record rates.” The Times reports that the “odds of success [of mass protests] …