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".
New Orleans The term “starving artist” is a dependable piece of the vernacular; a linguistic matched set. Unfortunately, cultural cachet doesn’t pay the rent. For all of the emphasis on “arts and letters” and the millions of gallons of ink major media from the New York Times to the local TV and news …
New Orleans Through the Workers Organizing Support Center we are regularly in touch with workers at the nation’s dollar stores. All of which made us pleased to read the long story in The American Prospect featuring the work and activism emerging as these workers start to organize. As Bryce Covert points out, Employees …
Little Rock A dozen of us, mostly old labor union hands as organizers or lawyers or whatever was necessary, got together on Zoom to talk about how to support the movement moment among workers today. There was good feeling and an undercurrent of commitment to understand the current situation, despite whatever wisdom and scars …