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 – What’s up with unions in 2023? Last year, we wondered if workers unionizing was a moment or a movement. This year where do we stand? Are unions on the offense or defense? Or, both? The victory of the Amazon Labor Union in Staten Island, New York, and hundreds of Starbucks cafes winning …
New Orleans – I was talking to Steve Charter on Wade’s World about the fight with the Signal Peak coal operations around his ranch in the Bull Mountains not far from Billings, Montana. That company has been a terror to the land and water and connected to a host of issues that should be a …
New Orleans – Mi companera and I are not looking forward to the new Netflix policy about password sharing. We’ve been using our son’s password so long on our TV that we no longer have any idea what it might have been. He was a Netflixer forever. Passing his house, we still sometimes see …