WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
April 27, 2021 New Orleans In one of President Biden’s recent executive orders, he announced a plan to appoint a White House commission, chaired by Vice-President Kamala Harris, to come up with ideas on how to support labor unions. Obviously, the government can’t organize unions for us, nor can they sign up our members, but …
ACORN Founder and Chief Organizer Wade Rathke was recently featured in two NPR news articles. In the first interview, Wade speaks with NPR reporter Stephan Bisaha about the process of starting a campaign to unionize, and why exactly it’s so difficult to win against big employers. In the second, after the union vote has been …
April 26, 2021 New Orleans I got my education in the racial and income bridges within families, mothers, and children early as an organizer for the National Welfare Rights Organization. Women of all races, but mainly the Black and brown members of the groups we organized in Springfield, Massachusetts during the late 1960s would regularly …
April 25, 2021 Pearl River The Texas Highway Department is changing all of the signs on state highways. They used to say, “Don’t Mess with Texas”, appealing to drivers not to litter. The new signs are going to say, “Texas is a Mess!” in order to let people know about the Republican-led legislative attack on …
April 24, 2021 Pearl River The Guardian refers to the book, Our Bodies, Ourselves, as one of the “most influential books of the 20th century.” I would say the book is that and more. It sold four million copies at least, and that doesn’t count the dogeared copies that were ubiquitous and passed around …