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 Talking to NYU Professor Natasha Iskander on Wade’s World and reading her new book, Does Skill Make Us Human? Migrant Workers in 21st Century Qatar and Beyond, forces us to confront the fact that we don’t think enough about skills. Employers, educators and politicians constantly promote more effort and programs to increase skills. We all talk about …
Marble Falls You have to keep these things in perspective of course. Winning union elections in two of Starbucks 9000 stores is not exactly an example of workers bringing a huge company and mega-brand to its knees, but it means something big and could be teaching some lessons about workers now and how to organize them that …
Little Rock Looking at the silver lining, rather than the clouds, it was encouraging this early in an election year to see voter registration replace voter suppression in the news for at least a minute, although certainly they are intimately connected. One of our partners on some issues involving voter purges and analysis at ACORN’s Voter …