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".
Marble Falls I wasn’t familiar with the negotiating strategy being popularized by a guy named Chris Voss called “tactical empathy,” until reading an interview in Sunday Times from over a month ago. Turns out that Voss was a career FBI guy who went from being on SWAT teams to becoming their lead negotiator …
Pearl River Labor and the unions that represent American workers have quickly gone from the most union-friendly president in the last 50 years or more to the most union-unfriendly president in probably one-hundred years. It’s a little bit like celebrating Labor Day from a hospital bed. We’re glad to be alive, but, boy, are …
Valletta Malta is an island, so it almost goes without saying that it’s not a big island. ACORN has a new affiliate there, Solidarjetà. It’s an interesting organization working in what I increasingly understand is a fascinating, but challenging environment. I had never been to Malta or its major city, Valletta, but being in …