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 There have been massive protests and rolling strikes in France seeking to stop French president Macron from unilaterally raising the pension age from 62 to 64. There have been three months of mass protests in Israel over Prime Minister Netanyahu and his latest far right coalition’s effort to appoint judges and ignore …
New Orleans We’ve talked about some of this before, but it’s such a great story, it’s worth retelling for any who haven’t heard it. I was reminded of the great effort by US debt activists reading a piece recently in Mother Jones that hit all the right notes quickly from start to Occupy …
New Orleans Local 100 United Labor Unions has represented “hoppers,” as they are called in New Orleans for over thirty years. The hopper is the rounded back of a garbage truck where the trash is deposited by the laborer and then compacted. Somehow over the years, the workers handling the business end of …