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".
Pearl River This starts with Lauren Fajardo. I had met her in Toronto when she was helping out with some of the earlier shooting on what became The Organizer film. She was from Cuba. We knew her partner, Joey Carey, who was producing the film, and had gone to school with our daughter, Dine’. …
Pearl River I was offended at first when I saw the headline: “Picketing with More than a Contract on Their Minds.” Was this a typical New York Times play and an effort to trivialize strikes, in this case the existential fight by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) confronting streaming and emerging technologies. Was …
Pearl River I liked President Biden’s position when he was refusing to bargain with the Republican Freedom Caucus dominated proposals from the House of Representatives. Showed grit. It probably wasn’t hard to say in the early days of this standoff, when their demands then and now were essentially that he hands over his …