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 It’s not perfect, but it’s about the best we have when it comes to a collaborative database of voters, shared state by many states. When it comes to real, not imagined, voter fraud or duplicate voting, it’s time to ask ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center. Our Voter Purge Project …
Pearl River Remember the pandemic? Remember when there were “essential” workers and everyone pretended to care about them? Right, that was so 2020, wasn’t it? Talking to Middlebury College sociologist and former labor organizer Jamie McCallum on Wade’s World about his recent book, Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice, he …
Pearl River Don’t be surprised if your boss starts trying to add a new rule in your workplace to restrict your access to your cellphone. He may claim it has to do with your concentration on the job, the customers, dangerous machinery and other reasons, but there may be a new worry the boss has. …