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 American Prospect recently ran a lengthy piece reported by respected columnist, Harold Meyerson, on the internal conflict within the United Auto Workers (UAW), one of the major US unions, now and historically. While painful to read about a labor union’s internal strife, which is usually kept more successfully behind closed …
Toronto It took me a couple of days to finally get past the headlines and read the new exposes from United Farm Workers Union co-founder Delores Huerta and others about sexual abuse and rape at the hands of the other co-founder and longtime leader of the union and icon symbol of the Chicano and …
Pearl River Darned, it must be tough being rich these days. All the charts indicate that the top tenth of one-percent, the top one percent, and even the top ten percent are making out like bandits in the current economy, especially in the US, thanks to Trump and his various tax breaks and reallocations …