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 We were organizing nurses at a hospital in Amarillo, Texas some years ago in the time of the Haley Bopp comet. We’d filed for an NLRB election, but we were far afield of our natural base in Texas in the big cities. It was one of those situations where we should have …
Pearl River Atlanta bills itself as the Queen City of the South, an international hub with perhaps the world’s busiest airport, multiple corporate headquarters, and more depending on the day of the week, and where it can make a buck. Inarguably, it’s a great city that in recent years has grown like topsy. The …
New Orleans Honestly, the news of a second consecutive defeat by the Amazon Labor Union, in a two-to-one beatdown in Albany, New York, is depressing. Their victory earlier this year had been inspiring when they came back from a false start and soundly won in a much, much larger unit in Staten Island. …