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 Finally, a reason for progressive-minded students to stay in college, whether they are learning anything in the university or not: they can help the athletes organize a union or at least win their rights as workers! The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) fired a shot across the bow …
New Orleans After four days on the road, the first thing I heard, when returning to New Orleans, was that the garbage had still not been picked up in any of our neighborhoods. It was all the talk at our coffeehouse, and all over the street front there as well. It was stacked up and out of cans, …
Pearl River In 2005, I left the SEIU International board to run an organizing project directed at establishing whether we could successfully organize Wal-Mart workers on a number of fronts. This was a joint project involving ACORN, SEIU, AFL-CIO, and UFCW. SEIU was developing the Wal-Mart Watch effort based in Washington, DC, and our effort …