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 I read Daisy Pitkin’s book, On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union” quickly when the publisher sent it along, and after a couple of misconnections and fumbled dates, we talked recently on Wade’s World. As an organizer reading an organizer’s tales, I …
Pearl River It has been many minutes since I have run into Ellen Bravo, but I welcomed the chance to do so again, this time on Wade’s World. Ellen has been in the work for decades, coming to wide attention when she was the director of 9-to-5, the National Association of Working Women, for …
May 21, 2022 San Jose I’ve known Sarita Gupta as a friend and comrade for decades now, dating back to her time in Chicago and then nationally as head of Jobs With Justice. JWJ has been a coalition of some unions at the local and national level and a lot of labor activists for …