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 Facebook and its Instagram child, Twitter and its tweets, and the rest of the gang are going from addictive communication tools that we all use to some degree as things we love and hate to dangerous weapons in many hands and misinformation machines that are out of control. Facebook, particularly, seems …
Little Rock For ninety minutes I participated in a fascinating call, organized by Organizing Upgrade, about the obstacles that workers face in trying to protect themselves, secure their rights, and, if possible, organize collectively at Amazon. The participants included activists, veteran union organizers, writers, and current Amazon workers. The organizing climate is such that …
New Orleans There’s a bit of dark humor we often engage in when we joke for one reason or another about big tech that “we’re just living in their world.” We’re talking about the ubiquitous conglomerates including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google, or Alphabet if you will. In modern daily life …
Pearl River: Thanks to the Stansbury Forum, a website for labor organizers and activists, for asking me to do this long post for them on other ways of looking at organizing Amazon. This is Part I of four Parts. Amazon? There Has to be a Better Way Amazon, we have a problem! Jeff Bezos may …
Pearl River On the eve of Labor Day, I found myself talking with Middlebury Sociology Professor Jamie McCallum on Wade’s World about a range of topics from worker surveillance to hours of work to the impact of the pandemic on workers to the state of unions today, since McCallum was also a former SEIU organizer …