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".
Marble Falls Yes, the behemoth e-commerce giant Amazon lost an election to an upstart, rag tag independent rank-and-file union, the Amazon Labor Union, in recent weeks, but don’t think for a minute that this fiercely anti-union company is ready to say uncle and respect the wishes of a majority of their workers in …
Lee’s Summit, Missouri Travel requires an open mind to discovery. We traveled to Lee’s Summit, Missouri, the 101,000 person, sixth-largest city in the state, that we and the rest of the world will always understand as really a suburb of Kansas City, nestled in their metropolitan area. Of all my aunts and …
Marble Falls It was a bit over my head, but given the times we live in, our motto has to be “any port in a storm.” Anyway, I agreed to interview philosophy professor Andrew Fiala from Fresno State University in California to get an idea about his perspective on these times on Wade’s …