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 The hypocrisy of college sports is on widescreen display as the pro football draft tees up. We’ve talked before about the wildness of the transfer portal and the new monied NIL world of name, image and likeness for athletes. Of course, it’s not just football that’s impacted, basketball is also in …
Pearl River Even though much of our union work and labor organizing focuses on lower waged and marginalized workers, both formal and informal, the organizing and bargaining challenges and issues of higher waged workers are an endless fascination. Often, we think of the unions of airline pilots or the almost closed-shop unions of the …
New Orleans Sports is a funny thing. Some might think it’s insubstantial, maybe even frivolous compared to all of the stuff that’s supposedly more important, like politics as one example or even art. For my money, they would be wrong. Sports of almost all kinds is more human and invariably more popular, in …