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".
Pearl River With the US election less than four weeks away, it was timely to talk to the veteran progressive political organizer, Bob Creamer on Wade’s World. As it happens, our paths have crossed many times over the last decades. Before becoming a political organizer, Bob was a community organizer for many years based …
New Orleans The corruption indictment on a bunch of nasty counts of bribes, influence peddling, and campaign finagling didn’t come as a surprise to read in the Times. For daily readers, it seemed like one shoe after another was dropping around him and had been doing so for a good part of his …
Marble Falls On a recent Wade’s World, I talked to Debbie Goldman, the former research director for many years of the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The excuse for the conversation was an excerpt running in the coming Social Policy and her book, Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital …