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".
Chicago In the array of workshops, panels, and ballroom presentations there were some about organizing in the South, which has been the holy grail for the future of US unions ever since companies poured into the region to take advantage of cheap labor and abundant resources. Hearing what was on union activists’ minds made …
Pearl River My lifelong habit of reading the newspapers that stack up while I’m traveling persists, because I swear it pays dividends. Reading online can never capture everything that is in print, so I maintain the hard copy is a way to harvest what is easily missed otherwise. For all I know, some items …
New Orleans Another Black Friday has come and gone, or has it? Now, there’s Cyber-Monday, and every kind of small business seems to be jumping on the bandwagon at least pretending there’s a sale on offer. I even read some report about a woman who specialized in finding cheaper prices than Amazon on …