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 I’ve been clear. I’m still a “More Money Now – Mas Dinero Ahora!” guy, as the welfare rights slogan used to go. That doesn’t mean I’m against work. Just the opposite, but for work to do the trick in dealing with poverty that has to mean …
New Orleans Recently, I shared a piece that asked the question about new found pandemic-induced appreciation for the American working class. Supposedly, there is now an understanding that they are essential. My question was: “so what?” What are employers ready to do about it? In the massive tide of worker-driven strikes we’re seeing …
Pearl River As soon as I was contacted about talking to Emory Professor Falguni Sheth on Wade’s World about her book, Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab, I was in. The Alliance Citoyenne, ACORN’s affiliate in France, had been fighting all levels of government there to overturn restricts on women with hijab being …