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 headlines said that 1000 Starbucks workers were on strike on the company’s annual “red cup” holiday special. The strike was indefinite, the union said, and was happening in 65 stores across 40 states. In New Orleans, nurses went on strike for the 5th time for 3 days at the UMC …
Mumbai STRASCAS is the ACORN-affiliated union of sugar cane workers working in the plantations and processing facilities outside of Yaoundé in Cameroon. This isn’t an easy to story to follow, but it’s an important one that I’ve mentioned briefly before. Karina Bhatt, a reporter for the Caravel, a student paper at Georgetown University in …
Delhi Getting back to Delhi, I was looking forward to catching up with the work ACORN has been doing with various groups of informal workers through our affiliate Janaphal. On my last visit, the progress in uniting our own hawkers’ unions and associations with other hawkers’ groups in different cities across the country had …