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".
Toronto As an interesting twist in the ACORN Canada head and lead organizers’ meeting, Judy Duncan, the head organizer, brought over one of the local organizers to brainstorm about the issues confronting one of our emerging tenants’ unions in a mid-sized building in the city. Ostensibly, the building was owned and run by a nonprofit, …
New Orleans A full-page ad in the New York Times is expensive. We’re talking tens of thousands of dollars. You have to be a big company with a bloated advertising budget or deep enough pockets that makes you believe it’s worth the climb to get your message out. A front section ad on page …
Little Rock In Delhi, I spent an hour or so talking to a veteran union leader and organizer, formerly a member of the executive in the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) talking about the effort to organize one of the many warehouses Amazon was running in East Delhi in Uttar Pradesh in the capital …