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 When Oliver Anthony (nee Christopher Anthony Lunsford) sings about the “rich men north of Richmond,” he’s talking about the people in Congress and all of those folks in Washington, D.C. and its suburbs. The news says that these same rich men did get it together in a roughhewn temporary coalition of …
New Orleans Hands down, the UAW’s masterful conduct of their recent strike has been a wakeup call for the labor movement not only in the United States but everywhere, with ripple effects far and wide. On the issue of wages, their victory has set a benchmark for autoworkers and others. Interestingly and disturbingly …
New Orleans Vinod Shetty shared a link to a local news report from Mumbai recently that the Adani Group was putting up a billion of its own money to start their redevelopment work in Dharavi, the megaslum where ACORN has worked for the last more than 15 years. The report was a bit …