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 Dwellsy is one of those Silicon Valley startups, we read about constantly. The niche they are trying to carve out in the market I would describe as something along the lines of being the Zillow for rental properties, the “be all and end all” source for tenants looking to rent apartments …
Toronto I used to say, more seriously than satirically, if we could just find an organizational formula to winning campaigns to deal with loose dogs, better garbage pickup, and improved sewerage handling, we could organize the world. I’m now going to add cleaner water to that list. This is thanks to reading Professor Manuel …
New Orleans Recently, I shared a piece that asked the question about new found pandemic-induced appreciation for the American working class. Supposedly, there is now an understanding that they are essential. My question was: “so what?” What are employers ready to do about it? In the massive tide of worker-driven strikes we’re seeing …
Pearl River As soon as I was contacted about talking to Emory Professor Falguni Sheth on Wade’s World about her book, Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab, I was in. The Alliance Citoyenne, ACORN’s affiliate in France, had been fighting all levels of government there to overturn restricts on women with hijab being …
New Orleans Louisiana State University Professor Adrienne Katner knows something about water. In fact, as Director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Program at the LSU Health Sciences Center School of Public Health, let’s face it, she knows a whole lot about water, particularly whether it’s safe to drink, and more specifically, …