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 outcome of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) strike is a long way from being settled, but so far union leadership has handled this very wisely. The tactic of hitting all three of the big automakers, GM, Ford, and what used to be Chrysler and now is called Stellantis is brilliant, …
Sao Paulo My father would have liked Brazil. He knew “field” Spanish from time spent in the California orange groves when his dad was a foreman there near Orange and Santa Anna. He would help out and talk to the Mexican workers when they were putting out smudge pots to ward off freezes or …
Recife I was confused, but that’s not uncommon when an Organizers’ Forum delegation is on foreign soil and lost in another language. Trying to sort out the address for our meeting with CUT, the Brazilian labor federation, and some of its members, I worried that I had gotten the wrong address for the …