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 We finished our last day of workshops on ACORN organizing in Baltimore in the massive old theater complex that is now CASA’s multi-service worker center in the city. We worked with a mixed group of professional organizers and a number of what I had begun calling “seekers.” These are activists looking …
Baltimore I hope I’m not grasping at straws, but I’m hearing some encouraging reports of union organizing progress, as we move from city to city on the East Coast. I don’t know if this is enough to turn the tide, but at least some unions have fists and feet in the dike to hold …
Philadelphia Community gardens have been a growing part of the urban agriculture scene around the country, so I jumped at an invitation from people in our first Philadelphia workshop to visit one of the most well-known, the Cesar Andreu Iglesias Garden in North Philly. Driving there, I felt like it was one of the …