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".
Manchester In the fog of jet lag and false expectations, it took me until the afternoon to fully grasp what the Make Amazon Pay campaign and this summit were about. It wasn’t about organizing really, although this was a union-based and funded effort. But they were all about organizing, in the sense of fully …
Pearl River I pretty much lower the hip quotient whenever I walk into a room. In the blazing new age of social media, I gave up on keeping up many years ago. Twitter or whatever it’s called now was X’ed out of my life for all practical purposes when I couldn’t keep up with …
New Orleans I was talking to an old comrade, friend, and Local 100 organizer from back-in-the-day, Jon Barton, who among other things heads up the climate initiatives for the SEIU, the giant US-based Service Employees International Union. He had mentioned in an interview for Wade’s World how seriously the union was taking the …